Google Misclassified Octolinks as an Electronics Site via a Front-End Catalog Embed

When a platform serves a third-party website on its front end instead of isolating it inside a webview, Google crawls and indexes the external content under the host domain.

Thib describes integrating a live catalog site, Electroplus, into Octolinks to showcase a "site within the site" rather than using a webview.

Octolinks ranked "very, very well" at first on Electroplus and its embedded catalog data, likely hijacking the third-party site.

Because the platform served that catalog data on the front end, Google misclassified Octolinks as an electronics site.

Separately, regarding remediation, the host was going to pull the embedded catalog site out of the front end to move it elsewhere and declared the unwanted pages for removal in Google Search Console — the first time in 3 to 4 years of link building that the host had to purge indexed pages in GSC.