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Strange Thing about my website and search terms

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    Strange Thing about my website and search terms

    Hello,

    Recently I noticed that Search sent traffic to my website with strange keywords which is not related to my website, before this all of the incoming searches were related to Veterinary ( my website's subject) and 99% of visitors were from the US, But now most of the traffic are from Turkey and the keywords are about Computer and warez contents. I dont have anything about Computers , and its all about Veterinary Articles.

    Is my website hacked ? What should I do ?


    Note : I have secured my Admin using .htaccess and changed the admin folder name and also the vbseocp (as Brian suggested at the members articles - (special Thanks to him for great tips))


    any help is appreciated...

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    Check the landing pages for spam posts/content. Sometimes a member profile page gets linked to by harvesters.

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    Thanks for the reply Brian,

    I checked all of the member profiles, I dont have so much visitors cause I set my articles visible to everyone.

    I am really worried about it :(

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    And I noticed that some of the incoming search terms are with this Keyword :

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    http://www.webmasterhatti.com/
    I am not sure if its a legal website or not so please remove it if its against the rules.
    thanks

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    Its possible someones got a divert on their website for unwanted traffic and aimed it at you
    No telling what the low life will do these days to knoble a forum
    I just went to your site from a google search ok with no divert
    Then did a search for the above term and found no mention of it on there
    Just in case you see an ip from Spain acting suspiciously

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    Thanks For the reply,

    yeah me too, I also searched it in Google.com.tr (The local Google Of Turkey) and the results was almost the same.

    I am not from Turkey and its so strange to me that something like this happened.

    Thanks again

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    I hate it when Brians right
    Your user profiles can be seen by anyone, which is one of the black hatters more common places these days for building back links
    Register on a forum, add a link in a profile and dont get seen again

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    But I blocked member's profiles using robots.txt , so there is no index of profile pages on google.

    thanks

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