Report Competitor Black Hat to Google.

Discussion in 'Google' started by Rblakney, Oct 2, 2008.

  1. #1
    Good Day,
    Like the rest of you, I keep close tabs on my competitors websites to help me beat them in SERP. There is one competitor that was using Black hat SEO techniques, and I reported them to Google, which caused them to be blacklisted for about 3 months.
    Well, now they are back but it looks like they are still using some (white text on white background), but it seems that google is ignoring my reporting it, since I already reported the site once.

    Does anybody know of away around this? Are there any 3rd party Blackhat reporting sites (so google will not trace it back to me)?

    Thanks ahead of time for your help.
     
    Rblakney, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  2. miranon

    miranon Peon

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    #2
    Maybe you should use another name and ip to report them or ask your friend to do it. ;)
     
    miranon, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  3. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #3
    Why don't you report them again?
     
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  4. Rblakney

    Rblakney Peon

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    I have reported them again, but it seems google is ignoring my new reports (I reported them a month ago, and then again last week).
     
    Rblakney, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  5. AOCenteno

    AOCenteno Peon

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    My understanding is that Google tries to automate everything....they hate work that can't be rolled out to meet the demands of exponential growth. That being said, they might take complaints once to learn what people are doing to game the system, then look to fix their algorithm to deal with this type of black hat stuff.

    Just my thoughts.
     
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  6. angilina

    angilina Notable Member

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    You can report this again, however, hidden text is something that google can automatically detect. So you can wait for some time to see google penalize that site for hidden.
     
    angilina, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  7. adiian

    adiian Well-Known Member

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    #7
    how can you report black hat sites to google?
     
    adiian, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  8. IEmailer.com

    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    I don't think will ignore any report about spam in their index, they usually respond quickly and they did all the time..
    My advice is just to reported once again and then give it more time, simply wait ;)
     
    IEmailer.com, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  9. terryuk

    terryuk Notable Member

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    In your webmaster tools account, just simply click 'Report Spam in our index'. I have no idea on the time-frame that it takes for a human to review the 'Spam' website but I imagine either a human will fix this for you, or the Google algo will gradually get around to doing it before the human does.
     
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  10. SEMSpot

    SEMSpot Peon

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    Report them once a week until it is fixed, Google hates sites trying to spam there index and will penalize or even perma ban that site. If not, send a message to matt cutts from his blog or hit him on twitter.
     
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  11. AngelaE8654

    AngelaE8654 Active Member

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    You seriously would report a competitor? I've never even considered that; I simply go about working on my own site.
     
    AngelaE8654, Oct 2, 2008 IP