Sending Spam Reports

Special Instructions

[crobb305]

I have not sent in a spam report in a very long time. But I see some really bad trends that I would like to report. Many times in the past, Googleguy has specified a certain subject line/email to use. What are we doing these days to get spam reports in and noticed?

[Bewenched]

They did mention that the ones submitted through your sitemaps account bear more weight and are probably looked at sooner.

[soapystar]

crobb you must be spending too much time in the yahoo forums these days!

:)

[crobb305]

Soapy,

I pretty much gave up on Yahoo LOL. Google is looking real good these days. Just noticed some bad urls sneak in the past few days. Nothing too big. I am very happy with how Google has been looking the past 12 months. It's been a long time since I sent in a spam report, though I don't see a report option in Sitemaps as suggested above. I am just using the regular spam submit form.

C

[vanessafox]

The spam report form in webmaster tools (formerly Google Sitemaps) is on the My Sites page. Click on "Tools" in the upper right and then "Report spam in our index".

[JoeSinkwitz]

This is a pretty important topic now as page 3 of a very popular term is now 8 of 10 listings full of *.spaces stuff...that really should go.

[crobb305]

Thankyou Vanessa,

This is a great tool added to Webmaster Central. I just sent in two spam reports. My first in many months. I have seen so many good things happening at Google, but every once in a while someone sneaks in a bad url. Those won't be there long I imagine ;)

Thanks again
Chris

[hvacdirect]

I look at the spam reports like voting. It's your duty to do it, and you should. However like voting your one single vote doesn't count for much and rarely decides a race, but we need everyone to vote or else the system doesn't work so yes your vote does count.

In other words, just because you fill out a spam report don't expect them to act on it, but if you don't fill them out you have no right to complain.