Monday, August 08, 2011 at 10:56 AM
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Everyone on the web knows how frustrating it is to perform a search and find websites gaming the search results. These websites can be considered webspam - sites that violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and try to trick Google into ranking them highly. Here at Google, we work hard to keep these sites out of your search results, but if you still see them, you can notify us by using our webspam report form. We’ve just rolled out a new, improved webspam report form, so it’s now easier than ever to help us maintain the quality of our search results. Let’s take a look at some of our new form’s features:
Option to report various search issues
There are many search results, such as sites with malware and phishing, that are not necessarily webspam but still degrade the search experience. We’ve noticed that our users sometimes report these other issues using our webspam report form, causing a delay between when a user reports the issue and when the appropriate team at Google handles it. The new form’s interstitial page allows you to report these other search issues directly to the correct teams so that they can address your concerns in a timely manner.
Simplified form with informative links
To improve the readability of the form, we’ve made the text more concise, and we’ve integrated helpful links into the form’s instructions. Now, the ability to look up our Webmaster Guidelines, get advice on writing actionable form comments, and block sites from your personalized search results is just one click away.
Thank you page with personalization options
Some of our most valuable information comes from our users, and we appreciate the webspam reports you submit to us. The thank you page explains what happens once we’ve received your webspam report. If you want to report more webspam, there’s a link back to the form page and instructions on how to report webspam more efficiently with the Chrome Webspam Report Extension. We also provide information on how you can immediately block the site you’ve reported from your personalized search results, for example, by managing blocked sites in your Google Account.
At Google, we strive to provide the highest quality, most relevant search results, so we take your webspam reports very seriously. We hope our new form makes the experience of reporting webspam as painless as possible (and if it doesn’t, feel free to let us know in the comments).
17 comments:
Nice, I might use it! :) Cheers!
While I'm sure it makes the Herculean task that the Google review teams have to deal with a little bit easier, I'm not really sure that breaking things up into fine categories is the right way to go for this.
For example, I recently found a black-hat company that was autogenerating thousands of keyword-spam articles on its own site, setting up multiple fake sites filled with links to itself, and also populating those spam sites with paid links to its clients. That kind of dedicated search manipulation doesn't really fit under any single category listed, although the old set of forms wasn't any better.
Can we get a Google -1 button to go along with this form?
I will check and try.
include paid link..?
Hey it's very nice since i am using google
I guess I was having a sneak peek at that yesterday when I submitted a half dozen - will I receive any follow up emails from Google to tell me they've dealt with them? if so, how long does that usually take?
Its a good thing. But I am sure there are people are going to miss use ite. So google has go make sure...people dont miss use it..!!
Good another feature. I will try. This feature helps for such a genuine webmasters.
Nice to care for website
Please do something about bizoo.ro
It is the biggest webspam site from Romania. I reported this many times and nothing can stop it, nothing but google.
Please view the reports for it and convince yourself about the webspam made.
Thx from all romanian google users.
Thank you, I hope this will make your lives easier too.
We provide a web hosting service with a free offering. Needless to say it is exploited for link farming, although I think we've discouraged most of them now.
It published to subdomains for users.
viagraxxx.example.com etc
Since WoT move trust up and down the tree, this badly impacts us, so we've been removing as much of it as possible, and enhancing tools for mitigation.
Curious if Google imposes any penalty in such circumstances. Since it would make it easier to argue for more effort on mitigation.
Similarly can I get notified at example.com if viagraxxx.example.com triggers some sort of penalty at Google?
None of the options in the new reporting allow me to describe this webspam method of improving rankings in enough detail.
Please check out
http://www.99counters.com/
Its a free flash counter which once installed includes hidden links in the object code.
Here is 1 instance of the code.
OK.. can't post html code.
look here please
www.cs-dow.com/
unpuntomusical.com/trova/
when i search for keywords on google mining guide, all the sites talking about gaming, I rarely get a site that really talk about mine, if your keyword is synonymous with mining guide game?.
I fear my blog gminingguide.com really disliked talking about mine google.
Please help.
Please do something about:
usa-wholesalejerseys,com
wholesalejerseysmart,net
ajerseys,net
It is the biggest webspam sites from China. I reported this many times and nothing can stop it, nothing but google.
please review them and take some action!
As to the three websites in the last comment, the Feds have taken them down, I recognize them from news stories, and was able to view the FBI 'sinkhole' page.
I'm wnting to report a Blogger spam, but Blogger.com and blogspot.com do not comply with RFC 2142 (can read that at ietf.org) which requires an email reporting option, and although the form is missing, email must be allowed anyway, and forms are actually against the standard.
Just saw a spam report for a Blogspot blog on spamcop.net, and was about to file a report when I found the procedure had gone awol.
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