Reporting spammers

Discussion in 'Google' started by flOid, Oct 16, 2006.

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    I've reported a competitor of mine to Google who is using doorway pages/cloaking. Based on your experience, how long does it take until the site will get kicked? Or is there even a chance that they will get away with it?
     
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  2. cellularnews

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    It varies a great deal.

    I get the impression that Google prefers to use the spam reports to find spamming patterns and then update its algo.

    I do a batch of spam reports each day for our top keyphrases, and it takes time - but you come in one morning, and suddenly whole chunks of spammers vanished at once.

    The algo was obviously updated.

    That makes me feel very good.
     
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    Where do u report spammers to?
     
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    I have reported a competitors site for spamming about 5 times in the last 2 months with no effect. I have used both the .com spam report page and the webmaster tools one.

    My college successfully got a site removed from the index for keyword stuffing but about a month later the site was back, exactly how it was before and in the same position.

    Its a shame really because these spamming sites DO actually do better in the SERPs than us, hard working people!
     
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    I'm pretty sure the spam reports are only used for adjusting the algorithim, not for hand-to-hand manual combat. The only time I've seen actual action is when a site or group of sites are publically called out in forums, like:

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=97090

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    Google Webmaster Help Post

    In both of those cases the offending sites were down within days.

    Someone needs to start a public site that lets people log and document the spam reports they send to google, then follows up with the action or no-action on their part. If we made it a site with enough visablility, I bet you'd see some more hand to hand combat.
     
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    Don't use the spam report thing. Contact Google using the webmaster contact form and it will have a punch box which is something related to what your talking about(sorry can't remember exact terms). Just about always they remove the sites I submit. Also if the site is breaking adsense/adwords TOS submit through that and they will get deleted much faster. Anyone who says Google only cares about moeny and makes money off from spam is a total idiot because whenever I submit a report(using adsense webmaster contact form) the site is usually gone within hours(anywhere from 5-24 hours). I have only had a few sites that weren't deleted when I submitted a report.
     
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    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=14249 :(
     
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