Major search engines redirect an HTTP link to a scammy pharmacy site

Major search engines redirect an HTTP link to a scammy pharmacy site - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Major search engines redirect an HTTP link to a scammy pharmacy site error on your web browser. Problem :

There is an HTTP website (not HTTPS) that works perfectly fine when the URL is directly typed into the address bar or when links are clicked from other websites/applications like Reddit, Facebook, and Discord.

The exceptions are the major search engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing. When clicked from one of these sites, it is redirected to a scammy pharmacy site with one of many different domain names. This occurs in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge; it also occurs on Android smartphones. (Bing only does this in Chrome; it works fine in Firefox and Edge.) This issue occurs for multiple people on many different devices.

Interestingly, other search engines (Dogpile, Baidu, Ask, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, etc.) seem to work fine.

What could be the cause of this behavior? Do the search engines or the website need to be fixed, and how? Would converting to HTTPS help, and why?

The website in question is bluefurok.com. I am not the webmaster, but as a programmer and web developer I am curious about this issue.

Solution :

Your website has been hacked. The hacker added some code to do the redirect only if it detects a referrer from a search engine. The search engines are not the problem here. Your site is what needs to be fixed.

Redirecting only search engine traffic is a common technique for hackers. They do this because it takes the majority of your traffic while making many hacked webmasters unaware of the problem. They may also be adding pharmacy content to your website that gets ranked by the search engines.

To implement the hack, the hacker may have:

• Inserted code into your .htaccess file to do the redirect.


• Created cron jobs that will re-create the hack one you clean it up


• Opened other backdoors to your website by uploading scripts or hacking existing scripts


• Infected your content management system (CMS) and database.

The best place to learn how to deal with the problem is with Google's guide for fixing hacked websites. If you are running WordPress, this type of hack is extremely common. There are guides specifically for cleaning up this type of hack from within WordPress.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the redirects, search-engines, http error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!