LuckyGuy - 6:34 pm on May 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

This is the post Matt Cutts Post on his blog:

maxD, last week when I checked there was a double-digit number of reports to the email address that GoogleGuy gave (bostonpubcon2006 [at] gmail.com with the subject line of “crawlpages”).

I asked someone to read through them in more detail and we looked at a few together. I feel comfortable saying that participation in Sitemaps is not causing this at all. One factor I saw was that several sites had a spam penalty and should consider doing a reinclusion request (I might do it through the webmaster console) but even that wasn’t a majority. There were a smattering of other reasons (one site appears to have changed its link structure to use more JavaScript), but I didn’t notice any definitive cause so far.

There will be cases where Bigdaddy has different crawl priorities, so that could partly account for things. But I was in a meeting on Wednesday with crawl/index folks, and I mentioned people giving us feedback about this. I pointed them to a file with domains that people had mentioned, and pointed them to the gmail account so that they could read the feedback in more detail.

So my (shorter) answer would be that if you’re in a potentially spammy area, you might consider doing a reinclusion request–that won’t hurt. In the mean time, I am asking someone to go through all the emails and check domains out. That person might be able to reply to all emails or just a sampling, but they are doing some replies, not only reading the feedback.

Sounds not so great