Spam Report Filed: Spammer Gone in 3 Days

This time, Google pays attention!

[Beachboy]

One of my sites ranks third out of 23 million results for a popular kw phrase. Few days ago, we dropped to fourth place, which is certainly no big deal since we move up and down the first page from time to time. But this time, the site that replaced us was pure spam.

The domain was way off topic. Maybe it was an expired domain or obtained by these people before it expired. But when you clicked the link it redirected elsewhere. I don't know what the spammers did to successfully pull off a trick Google has known about for ages.

I filed a spam report. Three days later, the spammer site is gone. That was quicker than I expected. I'm giving credit where credit is due...Nice work, Google!

[webdude]

Wow... I have reported many sites and have never seen any results... much less in 3 days. I wonder if this was just a coincidence?

[hvacdirect]

Congrats Beachboy! Someone is making a difference out there! We need to hear success stories as well, makes a guy want to get out of bed in the morning.

[Beachboy]

I know for a fact these spammers targeted many other kw phrases with the same tactic. I'm sure a lot of spam reports were filed on them. As a result, I am sure they quickly came to Google's attention.

[hvacdirect]

I found one of the classic spamming sites in my sector yesterday. Subdomains, redirects, you name it.

I reported the site through the webmaster console at 11:00 am yesterday, today at 11:00 PM, completely deindexed from 57,000 pages yesterday.

YAY Google. 3 cheers and all that.

[Bewenched]

AWSOME! I reported a few the other day that were using cloaking.. humm certainly didn't book mark it to check.

[simonmc]

Just because you report a site for spamming and it dissapears from the index does not mean your report had anything at all to do with it.

People with normal websites have them dissapear all the time for no apparent reason. If this happens to normal sites then it most likely happens to spam sites too.

What does seem to happen though with these site going out is that they often come back in again. Could be a day...could be a few days or even weeks.

The truth of this will be seen in the coming weeks if this site was banned. It means it won't come back.

You can't tell in three days if the site is out for good.

The more I look at google the more CHAOS theory comes to mind. A butterfly flaps it's wings in the Borneo rain forest and a spammer in Seattle goes missing in the SERPS for a few days.

From an actual users perspective this should be frustrating but google are so massive ...little things like sites missing for no reason have no effect on their percieved quality.

Wait this out a few weeks and then come back and tell us of your success.