How do you report a website to google for using black hat SEO?
For instances, if someone is spinning articles and then posting them on thousands of blogs that have nothing to do with their industry to get a bunch of links?
You let Google figure it out. While it might seem like a good idea to be able to report sites that we can see are manipulating with obvious tricks, your time is better spent making sure that your own sites are the best they can be. If there were a way, a place to report crummy sites, Google would need to hire thousands more people to verify your allegations - and there would be nothing to stop others from making accusations against hardworking, legitimate sites such as yours.
Crappy sites and link schemes exist because they can work great in the short run and that's usually all they're built for.
Google does offer a way to report malware and malicious sites because it is in their financial interest to try to prevent the spread of malware. But junk, we just have to wait it out and build our presence to get past the low hanging stuff. It has been this way since there was something to gain by having a web presence. Fraud and opportunists pre-date the internet by millenia.
SEOMastermind52
3:55 pm on Feb 1, 2021 (gmt 0)
This may not be directly correlated to "how you inform Google of a site or company using black hat seo" but it is a way for you to clear black hat links from your website.
If you haven't already, create a google search console account and verify your ownership of your website. Open up a notepad doc and list out any sites you find linking to your site that are "bad" or "spammy" links and once you have added them all to that doc save the file and upload it to google search console to the "disavow" section. This tells Google that you are basically not accepting these links and recognize them as bad, spammy, or #*$! style websites and want Google to ignore them. It is basically creating the trust with Google that they so much desire when links are concerned.
I hope this helps out a little bit regarding a way to maybe help your own website or a clients site fight back against someone maliciously sending bad links to your site or if someone performed shaddy SEO tactics to a site and you are taking over for that company or person.
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[edited by: engine at 4:08 pm (utc) on Feb 1, 2021] [edit reason] No sig links, thanks, see WebmasterWorld TOS [/edit]
roshanwebexpert
12:01 pm on Apr 12, 2021 (gmt 0)
I don't believe Google wants our assistance. To fairly take advantage of the search engine algorithms and modify their spidering to show that, Google keeps up with the new 'tricks'. Websites that attempt to bypass their scheme are also penalized by them.
