Hacked: purging injected casino spam at the root

Injected gambling URLs found, sorted, disavowed and blocked, with fixes pushed down to the CMS so they don’t come back.

Root

cause fixed at the CMS level, not page by page

Client

Services business

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What happened

A spam-injection hack had planted multilingual gambling and casino URLs on the site. They were being crawled and were dragging down how search engines saw the whole domain.

The cleanup

Every injected URL was found and categorised. Spam links were prepared for disavowal, the patterns were blocked in robots.txt, and the root cause was fixed at the CMS level rather than patched page by page.

Why it matters

Recovery work is unglamorous, but a clean domain is the base everything else stands on.

What happened

A spam-injection hack had planted multilingual gambling and casino URLs on the site. They were being crawled and were dragging down how search engines saw the whole domain.

The cleanup

Why it matters

Recovery work is unglamorous, but a clean domain is the base everything else stands on.

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