Querying " your brand, another term, or year to Locate Spam Results

[ghostofseo]

Seems with this latest update lots of spammy sites are actually ranking better now.

I was alerted via Google Alerts to some sites using my content. So I started googling.

At most we can only submit 5 links at a time via the Google "Report spammy, deceptive, or low quality webpage"

Is there a better way to actually contact someone at Google to show them they are displaying thousands of spammy pages / all with malware warnings. Ot does this need to manually be done 5 at a time for each search query you can find?

Do Meta people check these threads even?

[Atomic]

Do Meta people check these threads even?

Why should they?

[not2easy]

Hi ghostofseo and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

As explained in the Charter [webmasterworld.com] for this forum, Webmaster World is NOT here as a way to communicate with Google. But there are suggestions of how/where to make the effort in there. ;)

[OldFaces]

Hey ghost...yeah if I search for my website, or more specifically use quotes around lines of text that appear on my website, and use Tools > Anytime > Past 24 hours in the results I often find a TON of hijacked domains and spam websites that for some unknown reason replicate our content and inject malware. It was SUPER bad for a long time. Recently though that's been cut back a lot. I think some of these G updates have succeeded a bit in indexing these types of websites.

G historically would give what I'd call a 'honeymoon' period to new webpages. They'd index them for a while then de-index them. I think they are getting better at not indexing these sites to begin with.

[ghostofseo]

Thanks for the input here. I ended up reporting a ton of articles to Google and it seems to have made them disappear from search, one would think Google has the ability to crawl a site and determine if it has malware and not show those results. I get it sites can get hacked but to just throw any result into Google seems like were going backwards and not forward in progress.

although spending time to manually remove or notify Google does seem to be working.

[OldFaces]

That's great to hear! When I'd use this link to report [support.google.com...] I'd get 3 out of 5 times someone asking for more details about why the page should be removed. It's likely that I didn't report the malware and just did sites copying our content...like straight up copy with our name, footer, etc. lol