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Country names appearing in webmaster tools!

by AdamJ85
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Hi all,

Something strange has happened to my website: country names have suddenly started appearing as some of the top "content keywords" in Google Webmaster Tools.

For example, "islands" is appearing as my third most commonly used word and "burkina", as in burkina faso, is 17th.

Also, if I search for "<my website name> burkina" I can see a list of countries in the search results...

".... Burkina. Burkina Faso. Burma. Burundi. Cambodia. Cameroon. Canada."

If I go to my site and view source code then I can't find the words.

How can I identify where they're coming from?

My site runs wordpress and has quite a lot of plugins installed...

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
#appearing #country #names #tools #webmaster
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    I should add that there are no malware warnings in webmaster tools or any other signs that my site has been hacked.

    Also, I just realised that I had an old plugin (GT-Geo Targeting) activated even though it wasn't in use and hasn't been updated for a long time.

    I've deleted it now. Maybe it was causing the problem as it would obviously feature a list of countries as part of the plugin?
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