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Old 06-05-2020, 02:37 PM  
Nick_awt
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With TE and similar scripts all shady people have to do (for example) is.

Put link on any website.
ie. hxxp://www.mydomain.com/te3/out.php?u=http://outanddirect.com/wp-includes/rest-api/search/professionals/alerter.php/yatqv/wht/?lead=f11yyeah1rs00

(Scammers/anyone can make the u= to any url , as long as mydomain.com/te3/out.php exists.)

Get googlebot to visit the website with the above link on it.
If the u= URL exists then google will index it.

I would..........

a) Check your webmaster tools for abusive experience reports.
You might have lots of other bad links.

b) Check google.com (or webmaster tools) and search for site:yourdomain.com and see if you have loads of urls that you dont recognise.

It's a pain in the ass. Unfortunately, theres not much you can do to stop people.
You can change the directory /te3/ to /te/ then those URLS will become 404's, but its just a temporary fix.

Anyway, thats just off the top of my head.
Maybe there is a fix to stop this. You could ask over at TE.
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