Google Adding New Spam Warnings In Webmaster Tools

[snakeair]

This is a good new feature they have added. Check out this blog post.

Google is sending new warnings to webmasters when it suspects the sites may have spam-related problems that need to be addressed.

Over at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz points to two new warnings that users have discovered in their Webmaster Tools accounts: a “notice of detected unnatural links” and a separate warning about cloaking.

That second warning comes from this help forum thread and, as you can see, is very detailed:

Continued at: http://searchengineland.com/google-a...er-tools-60582

Your thoughts on this bit of news? I think the example report is pretty much a detailed one. It should help the person figure out what to fix much faster to get rid of the warning.

[CameronHamilton]

I think it's great! I'm estatic about Google communicating problems about our websites to us. That way I won't have to troubleshoot a bunch of different problems.

[jenhopkins1]

For me this is a good move for Google to notify webmasters about their site's status. There are hackers who inject links on websites and noticed the rankings dropped.

[webcosmo]

Its gonna be real hard to detect all the sites. But I would say its a good initiative.

[davemorkal]

i think Google took great stand against spamming. It would help webmaster to know about his/her website's status.

[f1seo]

Splendid! This will help to filter out some of the trash on the internet, ones in particular are MFA sites.

[sexymarieldon]

It's good to know that Google is aware of many spammers. It's a good way of preventing people do illegal things specially in the web. These people just rely on the fact that they can't be seen.

[deutsched]

That's pretty good!
A few weeks ago, I modified the keyword density on 2 of my pages. And apparently Google didn't like that, and gave these 2 pages a -30 SERP penalty, which I only discovered by chance.
Hopefully now Google Webmaster Tools could show me a warning let me know of any offenses I may have made, instead of letting me discover them by mere chance.

[CosmicLee]

The more feedback from google the better!

[CarpetRepair]

I'm all for Google being on the side of no spam. I spend 2-3 hours every day working on making my site SEO friendly.

[networkwebmaster96]

yes its good.
they said 3rd party has modified my site. what that means? i don't understand. if i don't give others my site information then how it is possible?
and cloaking is always harmful for the site. but i saw many sites that are using this technique but Google was totally silent. i don't know what happened now!!
what make them so conscious!!

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by snakeair

Continued at: http://searchengineland.com/google-a...er-tools-60582.

From the cited source, we read:

Sneaky JavaScript redirects
When Googlebot indexes a page containing JavaScript, it will index that page but it cannot follow or index any links hidden in the JavaScript itself. Use of JavaScript is an entirely legitimate web practice. However, use of JavaScript with the intent to deceive search engines is not. For instance, placing different text in JavaScript than in a noscript tag violates our Webmaster Guidelines because it displays different content for users (who see the JavaScript-based text) than for search engines (which see the noscript-based text). Along those lines, it violates the Webmaster Guidelines to embed a link in JavaScript that redirects the user to a different page with the intent to show the user a different page than the search engine sees. When a redirect link is embedded in JavaScript, the search engine indexes the original page rather than following the link, whereas users are taken to the redirect target. Like cloaking, this practice is deceptive because it displays different content to users and to Googlebot, and can take a visitor somewhere other than where they intended to go.

This raises the question as to how, if such is truly hidden, Google can detect it.

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