07-07-2007, 05:51 PM
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Can someone hurt my site by submitting a (Google) Spam Report?
According to the help below, the competitors can't hurt/defame others by submitting the 'false' Google spam report.
http://webmastershelp.iblogget.com/2...a-spam-report/
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Can someone hurt my site by submitting a Spam Report?
Posted by John Honeck on March 14th, 2007
It has been suggested many places that all someone (a competitor) needs to do is submit several spam reports on your site and you will be deindexed by Google.
While it seems unlikely that it would be just this easy to harm someone Else’s site, we look to Adam Lasnik as the ulitmate authority on the subject, and the answer is NO.
Spamfighting does not factor in a “popularity of the commons” scheme
whereby if [x] people vote a site off the Google Island, it is
ceremoniously dumped into /dev/null.
Put more directly: Having someone (or even 42 MILLION people) report a
site as spam will not change how we view a site. Our spam report,
rather, helps us to become aware of pages violating our guidelines that
we might not yet have crawled… enabling us to have another datapoint
in our search quality efforts.
However, consider this, if your site is indeed SPAM and Google tweaks it’s resources to identify as such, then of course your site could be removed. But be rest assured that even if they submit it as SPAM 42 Million times and it’s not spam that will cause it to be removed.
To file a spam report you’ve got two methods available, the Anonymous Google Spam Report or for a more authoritative spam report, log into Webmaster Tools and Report SPAM under the Tools.
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http://groups.google.com/group/Googl...0485335?hl=en&
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On Jan 23, 6:59 am, N-H-P wrote:
> It is quite possible that somebody made a SPAM / Abuse complaint
> against your web site. Probably one of your competitors. It is my
> understanding that Google NEVER informs web sites, they intentionally
> penalize. Certainly, not if somebody files a complaint against your
> website.
John, we clearly need to nip this one in the bud.
Spamfighting does not factor in a "popularity of the commons" scheme
whereby if [x] people vote a site off the Google Island, it is
ceremoniously dumped into /dev/null.
Put more directly: Having someone (or even 42 MILLION people) report a
site as spam will not change how we view a site. Our spam report,
rather, helps us to become aware of pages violating our guidelines that
we might not yet have crawled... enabling us to have another datapoint
in our search quality efforts.
On your issue, Bud -- forgive if I missed this mention -- but if you
haven't yet established a Webmaster Tools account, I highly recommend
that you do that before trying to manually second-guess indexing
issues. It is quite possible that you've inadvertently blocked our
Googlebot.
Lastly, in browsing through your site and clicking through your article
links on the front page, I noticed that every single snippet I examined
was published elsewhere. If others have been unceremoniously copying
entire articles from you, you may wish to ask them to stop doing so.
If your site is focused on republishing articles from other sites (I
assume with permission), that's fine, too, but from a search engine
perspective, I'm sure you can understand that it can be problematic for
us to choose where to send users looking for particular information
when it's available in more than one place.
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