Google Webmaster Tools added unnatural links and cloaking spam warnings, plus: Google Shops, how Yahoo angered advertisers and more.
Google Webmaster Tools adds ‘unnatural links’ and ‘cloaking’ spam warnings
In 2011, Google Webmaster Tools started sending out two new types of warnings – for “unnatural links” and “cloaking.”
The messages were sent out when Google detected pages on websites that were using techniques that were outside of its quality guidelines.
At the time, Google had been talking about wanting to increase its outreach to webmasters. See this video (published Dec. 18, 2010), in which Google’s Matt Cutts (featuring Danny Sullivan) mentioned that Google wanted to make communication a priority in 2011.
Read all about it in Google Adding New Spam Warnings In Webmaster Tools.
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