Monday, February 06, 2006

Google blacklists BMW for page rank cheats - vnunet.com

BMW.de is in trouble for using 'doorway' pages which violate Google webmaster guidelines Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO blogs that the Google: "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....

BMW used JavaScript-redirecting pages which fell foul specifically of "the principle of “Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users.”

It appears that at least some of the JavaScript-redirecting pages have already been removed from bmw.de, which is very encouraging, but given the number of pages that were doing JavaScript redirects, I expect that Google’s webspam team will need a reinclusion request with details on who created the doorway pages. We’ll probably also need some assurances that such pages won’t reappear on the sites before the domains can be reincluded""

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