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Security finding

A page links to a domain that is on an unsafe-site list

Security Error Severity: High

Part of the audit Outbound link safety. Finding id: security.outboundLinkToFlaggedDomain.

What it costs you

A visitor who clicks lands on a site reported for malware, phishing or spam, sent there by you. Browsers and search engines can come to treat your own pages as unsafe for linking to it.

What to do

Remove the link, or replace it with a current, safe source.

What it checks

  • Link to a domain flagged as unsafe

How to fix it

Remove or replace the link

  1. Open [source url] and find the link to [target url].
  2. If the link sits in a comment or other visitor content, remove the content and check how it was posted.
  3. If you did not put the link there and no visitor could have, treat it as a sign that the site was changed by someone else.

How to check: Recrawl: no link to [group key].