How long does it take for Google to BAN a spammy web site?

Hey, I'm new to webmaster development.

I was told by a colleague of mine that he reports Keyword Spamming and Hidden Text violations to Google.

He gave me the "Secret Tattle page" for Google Police.........LOL

When I did a random survey of perhaps 10 sites in my industry.......6 of them had "Hidden Text" (text color is same color as background) and repetitive key word spamming.

Heck, I even found "Hidden Text" on my creaky old web site, and I immediately removed it when I discovered its existence.

Anyway, my question for this board is:

If I report the 6 spammy sites with hidden text (cloaking or phantom text) & overabundance of key words (one key word exceeding 20% of content, key words repeated three or more times in metas/description) --- HOW LONG before Google bans the sites?

Or, do I need to sign in from different computers, ISP #'s and repeatedly flag these sites so that Google gets multiple reports, from a variety of users?

 

Go submit a SPAM report to google. They will get him down quickly.

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

 

Thanks for the link. Will help in future, but
does Google take steps without asking to the concern website owner?
Let;s have an simple exa. your site is "A" and My site is "B"

I have copied the content of your website and design, and i am reporting for your website means website "A", since my website should be baned that is "B"

But if Google get report for Website "A", so what it's imidiately takes steps for your website? even your site is origional and mine is cloned?

or both the website got punished by Google?

 

"Or, do I need to sign in from different computers, ISP #'s and repeatedly flag these sites so that Google gets multiple reports, from a variety of users?"

I think reporting one time is enough.

google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?search_ask=1&subtopic=&contact=rpv&main_topic=other&contact_type=11&contact_topic=Report+a+policy+violation&Action.Search=Continue

 

If you submit a spam report google will take care of the rest.

 

is there any script for checking "if hidden text" is used in the site or not.

Thanks...

 

Google rarely bans sites manually, they prefer the automated, algorithmic approach. Some people believe that spam sites reported by people are used as test data for updated algorithm and for nothing more. Reporting sites with hidden text or unrealistic keyword density is probably useless, because Google can find them on its own. Also, I do not think these are reasons for banning, G will most like just penalize them in SERPs.

It is usually more productive to spend more time improving own sites than figuring out how to spam report competitors from multiple IPs ;-)

 

Given the definition of "spam" I don't see how ANY website can be "spammy". Are you referring to websites that do blackhat SEO?

 

yup, website doing spamming techniques..
Any kind of search engine spamming consists of either trying to serve different content to spiders but not to regular visitors, or in trying to artificially boost link popularity and link reputation of a website.


and to answer djmc.. just report it to google..