All Reports
Every report from the desk, newest first.
We Reported 2,835 Spam Domains And 88 Percent Of The Farm Was Still Up Three Weeks Later
Abuse reports, disavow files and a free removal form were the three ways out on offer. One did little, one may have done nothing and one was part of the trap.
A Spam Update Took 96 Percent Of A Directory's Impressions And The Cause Was Us
Impressions fell from about 1,000 a day to about 25 in two days. The pages stayed indexed. Here is what we had built wrong.
A Bot Swarm Read 2,132 Directory Pages Once Each And Left
One day brought 2,031 visits from Singapore to a directory that gets 30 at most. Every one wore the same browser fingerprint.
A Link Farm Showed 1,000 Links To SEO Tools And A 404 To Google
We tested the farm behind a spam link wave. Rank tools saw links. Google got a missing page.
Seen Something Done To A Site?
Lost rankings overnight, found your pages on a stranger's domain or got a takedown notice you did not earn. Tell the desk what you saw.