This is interesting from matt cutts blog: "This week our webspam team continued ramping up our anti-spam efforts by removing bmw.de from our index, and ricoh.de will be removed soon for similar reasons." http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ramping-up-on-international-webspam/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&q=www.bmw.de&btnG=Search
This is excellent. Finally, anyone that is breaking Googles' rules - regardless of how "big" they are - are being treated in the same manner as the small fish. There have been many times that BlackHat methods were highlighted being used at large sites with the caveat "as if Google is going to drop them from the index!"... Now Google is taking action and creating a level playing field.
@Bundy http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bmw.de http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ramping-up-on-international-webspam/
It's a crap website anyway... JavaScript is a requirement... I use the FF extension called NoScript - unless it seems really worthy I allow sites but I can't even be bothered with sites like these if they are so dumb to make it a requirement.
I guess they're using scare tactics too, announcing to the world what they've done. It will be interesting to see when BMW are back in. Although I wonder how much of their traffic is "type in" compared to SE anyways, I really wouldn't have thought they'd need to resort to such tactics. ...and anyway, surely a link spamming compaign would have been better than a content spamming one
Yeah, somebody's getting canned over this. I can imagine when they were implementing it, "Trust me on this one, Google doesn't bust anyone for cloaking, especially outside the U.S."
@Sharpseo I don't even think that he told BMW that is was cloaking. One of the biggest SEO companies here in The Netherlands using cloaking as nr 1. methode to get high position. They never teld their customers about cloaking. They just call it "Organic"
It has nothing to do with that, It's just googles way of getting companies to start using adwords....just delist them... think how large the market is... next delisting...cnn?
Can someone explain just exactly what is wrong with the BMW.de site? I've just had a quick look over the code and I really don't see what's wrong, but I aren't up on the technical aspects. Pete
I kinda doubt "bmw.de" depends on SE's for hits, it's pretty easy to remember/type that URL when you are german and want to read about bmw's. Imagine how many big sites they are going to dump from the index on their chinese DCs? heh!