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Originally Posted by jetset
Do they not care? Surely this is clogging up the works for them, too and any substantiated complaint would result in direct action where it counts - from the search engines themselves?
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Put like that it sounds easy. But it is far more complicated than that.
One of the biggest problems Google has about reporting Search Engine Spam, is that millions of Webmasters consider Search Engine Spam as ANYTHING that ranks above their site in the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) and they don’t mind reporting it as Spam. So google has millions and millions, I am not joking or exaggerating here about the numbers, of Webmasters sending in Spam Reports every month about sites that are not considered Spam by the Search Engines. So every valid Spam complaint gets buried by tens of thousands of bogus reports... Now that’s Irony.
There are ways that Webmasters can become ‘trusted’ by google and then the Spam reports submitted by these ‘trusted’ Webmasters are given weight and are investigated by a real person. One way to become 'trusted' by google is to join their Webmaster Tools programme (used to be known as google site maps) and have ALL your sites verifyed by google, then when you report Spam, report it through google's Webmaster Tools and make sure that it is in fact Spam as defined by google and not just a page that out ranks you.
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I would really like to see what Cpays has to say about all this. I hope he decides to post here.