In a report on my domain Google says that my domain has had spam from a third-party and that I should prevent this from happening.

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Third-party spam detected on https://example.com/

Google has detected a significant portion of your site being abused with spam that violates Google's Webmaster Guidelines and adds little or no value to the web. The spammy content may appear in your forums, guestbooks, social media platforms, file uploader, free hosting services, or internal search pages.

This spammy content is possibly generated by site users or other third-parties, and it leverages your site to promote spam rather than the actual subject matter of your site.

Therefore, a manual spam action has been applied to appropriate URLs matching this pattern: example.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=changeprefs&what=style&value=4&curl=

The good news is that we generally believe your site is of sufficient quality that we didn't see a need to take manual action on the whole site. The current manual action will only affect those pages with spammy content. However, if your site has too much spammy content like this, that may affect our overall assessment of the site, result in a bad user experience, and affect your site’s reputation and ranking.

Following are some example URLs where we found pages that have been compromised. Please review them to gain a better sense of where these spammy content appears. Please note that the list is not exhaustive.

https://example.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=changeprefs&what=style&value=4&curl=https://spammyurl.tld

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User-generated spam detected on https://example.com/

To: Webmaster of https://example.com/,

Google has detected user-generated content on your site that is either malicious or of no value to Google Search users. This type of content leverages your site’s reputation to promote spam rather than the actual subject matter of your site. Therefore, a manual spam action has been applied to example.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=changeprefs&what=style&value=1&curl=. This also causes your site’s URLs to appear for queries not related to your actual site content, lowering the quality of search results for Google Search users and thereby also impacting your site’s reputation and ranking. For that reason, we strongly advise you to remove the spam and file a reconsideration request. After we evaluate your site and determine that you have complied with our guidelines, we will remove this manual action.

I have tried to search but cannot find any threads with this in its links, maybe Google deleted it I don't know.
I understand above redirects it to a third party spamsite..correct?

Any ideas on what to do?
thanks

Last edited by Gizmo; 11/22/2023 8:47 PM. Reason: Clarity and added example warning messages.

Morgan Johansson
BritBike Forum
https://www.britbike.com/forums/ubbthreads.php