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Problem with meta description on Google

Post by poaro » Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:45 am

On Google, a meta description appears in Japanese, although only English and Serbian languages are installed on the site? Can someone help me how to solve this? And how did this even come to be.
The website is https://www.zasav.org.rs/.
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Last edited by imanickam on Sat Oct 29, 2022 1:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Moved topic » from Search Engine Optimization (Joomla! SEO) in Joomla! 3.x to Security in Joomla! 3.x

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Re: Problem with meta description on Google

Post by AMurray » Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:01 am

I don't see the above listing as you indicated.

This is what I see in Google:
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This is more a question for Google as I don't think it's caused by Joomla at all.
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Re: Problem with meta description on Google

Post by poaro » Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:12 am

You're probably right. Now I tried Bing and it shows normal there, while Google translates the results. Thanks.

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Re: Problem with meta description on Google

Post by Webdongle » Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:06 am

Confirmed I get that as well. Strange thing is
zasav.org.rs also gets results for zasavica.org.rs

btw your url returns www.zasav.org.rs/sr/. As my browser is English surely it should default to English for me?
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Re: Japanese keyword hack

Post by sozzled » Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:11 am

This problem has been discussed numerous times on the forum and shouldn't be dismissed as "more a question for Google". The website has been hacked with the infamous Japanese keyword hack.

See

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Re: Problem with meta description on Google

Post by Webdongle » Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:36 am

Thanks @sozzled have requested thread moved to security.

@poaro
Please see and action viewtopic.php?f=714&t=946026


The https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/japan ... word-hack/ link is informative but it fails in it's approach to cleaning the site. All folders/files need to be deleted not just the core files.
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Re: Problem with meta description on Google

Post by JasnaSontag » Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:42 pm

I see this:
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Why don't u add this in your head:

<meta name="charset" content="UTF-8">
<meta name="Country" content="Srbija, Serbia, RS, SR">
<meta name="Language" content="Serbian, sr_RS">
<meta content='RS' name='geo.country'/>

or something similar.
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Re: Problem with meta description on Google

Post by Webdongle » Sun Oct 30, 2022 4:59 pm

@JasnaSontag
That will NOT remove the hack
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