Title: Plugin causing issues with Google
Last modified: November 17, 2016

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# Plugin causing issues with Google

 *  Resolved [chickster25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chickster25/)
 * (@chickster25)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-issues-with-google/)
 * Hello
    I have been using your plugin on my website (watchesbay.co.uk) but after
   checking my rankings on google, I am finding they all contain the same text from
   your plugin
 * 0013205102035 – Watches Bay
    [http://www.watchesbay.co.uk/pa_ean/0013205102035/](http://www.watchesbay.co.uk/pa_ean/0013205102035/)
   Logo Watches Bay. The Online Specialist Watchfinder. Search… HOME … WatchesBay.
   co.uk · Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!
 * Clearly, a warning to ban someone when they see a link to your site in google
   is not a good incentive to visit the site.
 * How can I prevent this on all my pages?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-issues-with-google/#post-8449246)
 * This happens because Google et al display text snippets from web pages to display
   in their search results. Normally this is a good thing, but for pages that have“
   thin content” (or no content), there may be no significant content text to display.
   Your page needs at least like 160 (or something around there) characters for 
   the search snippet.
 * This is what is happening in your site’s case: lack of indexable content. So 
   it forces Google to grab literally whatever strings of text it can find on the
   page to include in the search results. Your pages provide very little in terms
   of content, so Google is using the text from the blackhole link to supplement.
   Thus the issue has nothing to do with the Blackhole plugin, and has everything
   to do with your site’s SEO (or lack thereof).
 * So to resolve the issue, here are some things to consider:
 * 1) Looking at the source code of your web pages, I had to scroll over 7,500! 
   lines just to get to the page body.
 * 2) Then had to scroll through another 200 KB of markup to get to the actual page
   content div.
 * 3) And then here is the problem, there is no page content to speak of.. it’s 
   like just a word or two. Yes there is an image, but Google doesn’t display images
   in search result snippets. They need actual text.
 * 4) Then after the thin content, there is another several hundred lines of code.
 * So with that in mind, I highly recommend adding more content to your pages. Text
   content. Product descriptions. Anything to give Google more in terms of indexable
   text-based content. Something that they can use in their serp snippets. It would
   be a real boost to your site’s SEO, and to your actual human visitors. **Add 
   more page content and Google will use it in the search results** (instead of 
   the Blackhole link text). I would recommend adding more/better content regardless
   of whether or not your site was using the Blackhole plugin.
 * So that is the main point: your site suffers from thin content and needs more
   text. Follow-up suggestions would be to better optimize (read: reduce) the amount
   of code that’s used to display the product image and description.. you want to
   bring it into balance, or better yet, restructure so that page content is provided
   in much greater abundance than code. Google takes these things into consideration
   when assigning rank to pages. Remember: content is king.
 * Anyway, I could go on, but I think you get the idea. I hope this information 
   is useful for you, it is my best advice. Good luck.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/).
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/).
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-issues-with-google/#post-8474415)
 * Hi chickster25, I hope you got this sorted out. I’m gonna go ahead and mark this
   topic as resolved to help keep things organized. Feel free to follow-up or post
   afresh with any new issues or questions, I’m glad to help however possible. Thank
   you.

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 * Last reply from: [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-issues-with-google/#post-8474415)
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