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by theoretical
5622 days ago
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I'd be interested in a further explanation of "Google absolutely takes action on sites that violate our quality guidelines [...]". Does that mean that Google manually decrease rankings of spammy sites that their algorithms haven't caught? Does this entail decreasing the rank of the entire domain, the IP? Does blacklisting ever happen? I ask since Google have previously[1] said they don't wish to manually interfere with search results. [1] "The second reason we have a principle against manually adjusting our results is that often a broken query is just a symptom of a potential improvement to be made to our ranking algorithm" - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction-to-googl... |
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Although our first instinct is to look for an algorithmic solution, yes, we can. In the blog post you mentioned, it says
"I should add, however, that there are clear written policies for websites recommended by Google, and we do take action on sites that are in violation of our policies or for a small number of other reasons (e.g. legal requirements, child porn, viruses/malware, etc)."
As the quote mentions, we do reserve the right to take action on sites that violate our quality guidelines. The guidelines are here, by the way: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...