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Do you inform people of that? I mean, do you inform people that they will be removed for 30 days and unless they put things right they will be banned for longer

Do you inform people of that? I mean, do you inform people that they will be removed for 30 days and unless they put things right they will be banned for longer? Or do you remove them and not tell them at all, leaving them in the dark completley?

Matt_Cutts 16y ago
Great question, Andrew. We typically do inform people they'll be removed for hidden text for 30 days. We also tell people how to file a reconsideration request to come back in sooner. I did the query ["hidden text" 30 days reconsideration request] and here's an example email from the #1 result: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020315.html http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020315.html You can read the whole message that we send, but the relevant part would be "In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from somewifi.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days. We would prefer to keep your pages in Google's index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-.... When such changes have been made, please visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=e... to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration." As infractions get more serious and we believe that the SEO/site owner is more willful, we give less information to the people who do spammier things. Hope that helps to answer your question.

Matt_Cutts 16y ago

Great question, Andrew. We typically do inform people they'll be removed for hidden text for 30 days. We also tell people how to file a reconsideration request to come back in sooner. I did the query ["hidden text" 30 days reconsideration request] and here's an example email from the #1 result: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020315.html http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020315.html You can read the whole message that we send, but the relevant part would be "In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from somewifi.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days. We would prefer to keep your pages in Google's index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-.... When such changes have been made, please visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=e... to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration." As infractions get more serious and we believe that the SEO/site owner is more willful, we give less information to the people who do spammier things. Hope that helps to answer your question.