Website flagged by Google Safe Browsing

Beep boop, I’m a bot! I dug through the forum to get you started. I sometimes get things wrong though, so do with this what you will until a human has a look.

Google’s listing is based on what its scanners think your pages look like, and only Google can remove it. Our article on this warning covers why sites get flagged and how to request a review:

Your hosting account was created only a few hours before you posted, and the article says new sites with little history are judged more strictly. It lists four common causes:

  • A copy of another site’s login page.
  • Another brand’s name or logo.
  • A hacked site.
  • A legitimate site that just looks like phishing, for example when a login form is the first thing visitors see.

Your site could be any of these, so I need to know two things:

  1. What is the site for, and what does a visitor see first on the homepage? For example, is it a login form, a lead-capture form, or a page that uses another company’s name or logo?
  2. What does the Safe Browsing site status page say for your address, and what does the Security Issues report in Search Console list as example URLs?

You wrote that the uploads folder is empty and that you found nothing in your files. If the site is yours and legitimate, the article’s advice is to make it obvious what the site is and who runs it. Then request a review once, in Search Console, after everything is fixed.