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Japanese SEO Hack
A common WordPress hack that injects thousands of Japanese spam pages to rank in Google for unrelated terms.
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The Japanese SEO hack creates auto generated pages and modifies your sitemap. Google indexes the spam, and your real pages drop. Removing it requires deleting injected files, cleaning the database, resubmitting a clean sitemap, and requesting reindexing in Google Search Console.
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