Spam text showing under site URL in search results

Question

I'm not a coder, so please keep responses understandable. ;)

I have a WordPress site with a GoDaddy registered domain. Recently my site has dropped off the search rankings. When I performed a search for my site today, I noticed that under the site URL spam text is now appearing as lines of text instead of cached site results. A search of my WP files and plugins reveals nothing, so I don't know how to solve this? The text is spam and pointing to another URL that is totally unaffiliated to my site. I suspect hackers have somehow embedded code somewhere to show this text when my site URL appears in Google Search.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Answer 1

Check your header.php. They most likely got access to your site and then added the links in the header. You should see a bunch of the links as soon as you open it up. If you need help cleaning it out I could take a look at it for you but they should be right there. It's a common thing with wordpress. After you clean the spam out, you need to make sure your wordpress site stays updated and then install a security plugin like this one.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/

Hope this helps