Strange title tag showing in Yahoo SERPs

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Strange title tag showing in Yahoo SERPs

Russian (or similar) tag coming up in Yahoo results

relli

12:41 pm on Aug 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

My client's site is showing in Yahoo.co.uk SERPs as having a Russian (or some similar language) title tag. I have no idea how this can have happenened. The URL leads directly to the client's site. The client sells insurance policies online, so there is a potential for Phishing which is making me concerned. Can anyone shed some light on this?

thanks

bill

2:07 am on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

Has the client's site been compromised? Any changes to the source code?

Marcia

2:09 am on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

You might want to run the URL through a translation tool. Granted that it's a minimal check-up, but I've found some things that way.

relli

8:13 am on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

thanks for the replies - as far as i can see the source code is ok, I'll try a translation tool and let you know. Any other ideas welcomed.
thanks

relli

8:21 am on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

I just put the title tag into Google and it came up with another site complete with a malware warning. So does this mean the source code has been compromised in some way?
thanks

bill

8:38 am on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

If it's indexed in Yahoo that way then it does sound like something has been compromised.

kaled

9:42 am on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

Is it possible that cloaking is in use? Perhaps you should try viewing the site using a search-engine user-agent. I'm not sure how you go about this these days because most browsers don't seem to let you edit the user-agent string.

There are three useragent values in Firefox about:config but you don't have full control. However, there's probably an extension that allows browsing as a search engine.

Kaled.

phranque

2:10 pm on Aug 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

this might help in your investigation:
User Agent Switcher :: Add-ons for Firefox [addons.mozilla.org]