Google Warns Webmasters Against Spammy Websites
By Anna Johnson on February 1st, 2011If you have a Google webmaster account you’ll want to make sure your websites abide by Google’s quality guidelines. Apparently, Google is now taking a closer look at the sites registered by Google webmasters and issuing warnings to webmasters it believes may have breached its “quality guidelines”.
According to Search Engine Land, some Search Engine Roundtable members have received warnings in their Webmaster Tools accounts that Google has noticed pages on their sites using “techniques that are outside our quality guidelines”.
Such techniques include, in one instance, the use of cloaking and, in another, the use of unnatural links. Google has warned those webmasters concerned that it would remove the offending pages from its search engine index for at least 30 days. If the webmasters wanted these pages to remain in the index, they would have to correct or remove the relevant pages.
Google contacting webmasters about spammy sites is undoubtedly part of its general crack-down on webspam.
