IndustryGoogle Testing Notification Of Banning To Webmasters

Google Testing Notification Of Banning To Webmasters

Nice scoop over at Threadwatch, coming off a

thread
at Search Engine Forums!
Google Pilot New Webmaster
Communications Initiative
at Threadwatch covers a new Google program where
Google is emailing those who run sites where they spot things they think might
violate their guidelines. Google’s Matt Cutts is going to blog more, but he
comments over
there:

Google is trying out a pilot program to alert site owners when we’re
removing their site for violating our guidelines. JavaScript redirects are the
first trial, but we’ve also sent a few emails about hidden text, I believe.
This is not targeted to sites like buy-my-cheap-viagra-here.com, but more for
sites that have good content, but may not be as savvy about what their SEO was
doing or what that “Make thousands of doorway pages for $39.95” software was
doing. Personally, I think opening up a line of communication to let
webmasters know when we’re taking action is a really good thing–a site owner
doesn’t have to guess about what happened. But again, we’re starting with a
trial program. I’ll blog about it more soon. [Note:
Matt’s blog is
here
]

Yeah, communication is great. It’s just odd that after years of being told it
was impossible or difficult to provide some type of “is my page OK” tool for
webmasters to use, now Google’s proactively doing it. Such a tool has been
dismissed as potentially helping spammers.

The email sent says that a particular URL was removed and lists some reasons
why, along with a note that it will be pulled for at least 30 days unless
content is changed and a reinclusion request is done.

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