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cawnpore

10-08-2014 11:49 AM

Something in VB 3.8.3 code is triggering cloaking attemot in googlebot

I have a 3.8.3 based forum that has a manual penalty imposed for cloaking and redirects. Despite not having any script/pop up/ advertisement etc., google keeps on declining the site reconsideration reports and insists that cloaking is still present.
I have a feeling that something in code is being interpreted as cloaking by googlebot and have used browseo to analyze. Sure enough it is showing a large part of code being interpreted as cloaking.
However it does not show exactly what I see in the source code obtained by visiting home page and selecting show source under view.
Does anyone know what code is being looked at by browseo?

ozzy47

10-08-2014 12:39 PM

does the same thing happen on a unmodifed style with all mods disabled?

TheLastSuperman

10-08-2014 12:55 PM

Site link? Sometimes you can simply view the source to see the insertion (code and the location etc) however if your forum was hacked possibly I would check the plugin list look for anything suspicious and also check the style manager to see if any templates were recently modified.

Simon Lloyd

10-09-2014 06:42 AM

First question i would ask is what mods do you have installed, give us a list and we can either confirm its a mod or help you look at other areas as to why this is happening :)

cawnpore

10-09-2014 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2518145)

does the same thing happen on a unmodifed style with all mods disabled?

Yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman (Post 2518148)

It has nothing to do with hacking, I am sure.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd (Post 2518219)

First question i would ask is what mods do you have installed, give us a list and we can either confirm its a mod or help you look at other areas as to why this is happening :)

I don't think I have any mod.

It is an adult forum, can I PM the link to someone?

Simon Lloyd

10-10-2014 10:05 AM

Sure, pm a link and i'll take a look tonight :)

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