Thank you Google! spam reports working!

recieved a response from google today, AND...

[shortbus1662]

I submitted a spam report on August 14th. Today, I recieved a response from google regarding it with your typical canned response--all publishers must meet certain requirements and if they are found not to blabbity bla...

The offending site was not only using adsense but was actually listed in Google's index and this was a pretty blatant spam site. Totally worthless of any value whatsoever.

Anyway, I clicked the link and adsense is no longer present. HOOORAY!

One down, two to do.

I check google and the domain is no longer visible.

HOOORAY AGAIN!

Thank you.

I've submitted a lot of spam reports both for sites listed in google and for spam sites not listed but using adsense and this is the first response I've received back HOWEVER, one is better than none and I'm glad to see that they are working on the problem!

[trader]

Even though the sites may be MFA ones nevertheless they are typically highly targeted to bring visitors seeking the targeted keywords, probably more precise targeting than a high content website.

So from the advertisers viewpoint does he really care if the person who clicked on his ad and purchased his product arrived via a small domainers Adsense webpage with a small amount of content, or from a large well known commercial site with lots of content?

The truth is (which some here may not admit) that it really makes zero difference as either way the Adwords client gets the sale and reward for his advertsising expense.

[lexipixel]

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I recently searched Google for a fairly unique keyword that appears in many of my pages. Of course, I ran across "spam" pages -- many of them were scraper sites which had harvested content from one of my sites then built pages using my content.

I backtracked through the offending domain, whois and eventually uncovered a small network of 700+ sites all using the same formula (scraped content, repeated keywords and 3/4 of page were PPC ads)... I reported it to Google, (my first time reporting anyone), but I actually got a real reply with a 'thank you' -- best of all; the pages are gone from Google's index.

Google has a Spam Report Form where you can report sites/pages that contain:

- Hidden text or links
- Misleading or repeated words
- Page that don't match Google's description
- Cloaked page
- Deceptive redirects
- Doorway pages
- Duplicate site or pages
- Other (etc..)

Go to:
[google.com...]

...and help clean up the SERPS!

By helping Google clean out junk, you will in-turn be helping yourself and other valid webmasters who's pages are getting lost in this sea of spam.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I backtracked through the offending domain, whois and eventually uncovered a small network of 700+ sites all using the same formula (scraped content, repeated keywords and 3/4 of page were PPC ads)... I reported it to Google, (my first time reporting anyone), but I actually got a real reply with a 'thank you' -- best of all; the pages are gone from Google's index.

I am sure they did thank you but you would have thought that a company their size would have been capable of doing this themselves?