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Just a guess, but how about adding a 301 &quot;moved permanently&quot; redirect to the right URLs?
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Just a guess, but how about adding a 301 "moved permanently" redirect to the right URLs?

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The problem seems to be with bad URLs being cached on some browsers, is there any way to purge cached results without other users having to do it themselves?
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The problem seems to be with bad URLs being cached on some browsers, is there any way to purge cached results without other users having to do it themselves?

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One of my Joomla sites was discretely hacked which resulted in nasty redirects being inserted into my .htaccess file. All search engine results redirected to malware sites.<br />
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Since cleaning the installation, I've noticed cached SERP's still redirecting. Obviously this doesn't occur since I've cleared my browsers cache, but how can I be sure that other users aren't still being served the bad SERP's?
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One of my Joomla sites was discretely hacked which resulted in nasty redirects being inserted into my .htaccess file. All search engine results redirected to malware sites.

Since cleaning the installation, I've noticed cached SERP's still redirecting. Obviously this doesn't occur since I've cleared my browsers cache, but how can I be sure that other users aren't still being served the bad SERP's?

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