Section with off-topic content (site reputation abuse indicator)
offtopic_section_suspectedShort answer
Most pages in one section of the site carry terms such as betting, casino, coupon code or payday loan in their title, H1 or URL, while the rest of the site almost never does. That pattern is typical of third-party content hosted on a site to benefit from its reputation. It is an indicator: Glimana cannot know who runs the section or why, so check it yourself.
Why it matters
Google’s spam policies describe site reputation abuse as third-party pages published on a site mainly to exploit the site’s ranking signals, and give coupon, casino and payday-loan pages as examples. Google can take manual action against such content, and in practice it often removes the whole section from search. Even when the content is yours, an unrelated section can weaken what the site is known for.
How Glimana detects it
Glimana groups the live, indexable pages by section (the site area it also uses on the Sections card). A section is reported when at least 60% of its pages contain one of the listed terms in the title, H1 or URL path, the section is smaller than 15% of the site, and fewer than 2% of the other pages contain such a term. Sites whose homepage title contains a term are skipped, because the topic is the site’s own. The evidence shows the section, the term counts and example URLs.
How to fix it
- Find the affected pages in Glimana. Open Issues › Section with off-topic content (site reputation abuse indicator). Every affected page is a row; open one to see the evidence Glimana recorded for it (the measured value, the offending element or the target URL). The same list sits on the task card under Tasks, and the page's own detail view under Pages shows its full signals.
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Apply the fix on your platform.
Decide who controls the section and why it exists. If a partner or advertiser publishes it, or it was written mainly to capture search traffic for these terms, move it to a separate domain, add
noindex, or remove it. If it is your own content and fits your audience, keep it under the same editorial standards as the rest of the site; no change is needed for this indicator.Check which user accounts and plugins publish to this category or folder. Sponsored “coupon” and “betting” sections are often added by a partner account or a plugin. Add
noindexto the category with your SEO plugin, or move the content elsewhere.Shopify stores rarely have such sections; look for blog posts or pages added by an app or a third party, and remove or unpublish them.
Find the route or folder that serves the section and who deploys content to it. To take it out of search, send
noindex(meta tag orX-Robots-Tag) for the whole path, or serve it from a separate host. -
Publish and clear caches. Save and publish, then make sure the crawler will see the new version: WordPress — clear the page cache in your cache plugin and purge the CDN; Shopify — theme and content changes go live on save, but purge any CDN in front of the store; custom code — deploy and purge the edge cache. Check in a private window or with
curl -s https://your-domain/page | grep -i '<title\|canonical\|robots'that the live HTML has changed; Glimana reads what the server sends, not what your browser has cached. - Verify in Glimana. This is verified manually: after you have decided, open the task under Tasks and click Mark as done, or dismiss it if the section belongs to the site.
How the fix is verified
Manually. Glimana re-evaluates the section on each crawl; it disappears from the list when the share of term pages drops or the section is noindexed, but whether the content is third-party is your judgement.