search engine ranking reports

[mr wonderful]

I think I have the worst search engine company in the world they have gotton my site penalized for running search engine reports every month. I had no idea this was a penality and called them up and asked them to stop running those reports and they acted like they had no idea that it was not legal in Google. My site is still in the index but I dont know if I should resubmit. Please help..

[WebGuerrilla]

And how is it you came to the conclusion that your site has been penalized because of a monthly position report? Did someone from Google tell you that?

[takagi]

My site is still in the index but I dont know if I should resubmit. Please help..

You can submit a site, to get it indexed. If your site is still there, then submitting it won't change a thing.

What makes you think that your site is penalized? Is the PR lower, or is the PageRank on the toolbar now gray for some or all pages? Or is the number of pages indexed reduced? Without some extra information it is not possible to help you.

[cornwall]

I assume that you have employed someone to check your Google position, and that they have been running an automated system to check ranking that Google does not like.

It has been well established that the web site owner is "responsible" for this sort of thing in Google's eyes. It stands to reason that they should be, otherwise sites would hire cowboys and claim it was nothing to do with them.

If you have had a penalty (I assume it is reduction in PR) then clean the site up, stop rank checking robots, and in the fullness of time you will (probably) get back to slightly below where you were before.

[jon80]

Surely it has been established before that there could not be a penalty for this as the competition could run multiple automated searches to get a site penalized.

[soapystar]

and yet its also been said that google has ways of knowing who is making the reports and reserves the right to drop you! go figure!

[ukgimp]

>>It has been well established that the web site owner
>> is "responsible" for this sort of thing in Google's eyes

Get out of here :)

If that was the case I could start wasting competitors. Fire up WPG and get querying on a site I dont like.

That would not be right, but would be possible if they bad the site. Clarification on this would be nice, but I am sure it is relaetd to IPs.

[Condor12]

IF SEO's get sites banned for using rankin reports on their customers sites, then how do you provide the client with a ranking report?

Condor12

[ukgimp]

get a google API or do it by hand

[Mohamed_E]

> get a google API ...

Not sure that would fit in with their TOS [google.com]:

The Google Web APIs service is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only (at home or at work).

[ukgimp]

OK :)

Then that leaves doing it by hand. :)

[Condor12]

:) more like :(