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Where To Report About Google & Yahoo Search Result Spam ?

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Recently I was searching for a movie review in Google and was astonished to see the Google search results page complete filled with spam results:

Case Study:

Check the below picture for this query in Google.

The top 8 results shown here are spam results.Look at the pattern of the title page carefully, you can easily make out  that these are spam results.

Dare to click any of those results? I did, and I was immediately redirected to another webpage that has no connection with what I was searching, this is definitely cloaking right?

Apart from not giving the desired WebPages that I was looking for, Google giving me pages that are compromising Google index to spam the most popular searches happening at a particular time.Why is the big brother Google pretty calm on this and feeding them, it shouldn’t be doing this right?

Well, if you just think like that and leave it without reporting, may be we are encouraging such spammers  indirectly to grow bigger and bigger so much so that they eat entire Google search results space on your browser.

Spam results in Google search

How  I Can Report Spam in Google Search Results?

Search engines do look into the spam reports submitted by the users, as they take this kind of spamming very seriously.You can report to Google about spam in search results from the below links:

>> If you have a Google Webmaster Tools account, you can report from HERE.

>> If you haven’t got a Google Webmaster tools account, you can still report to Google from here.

Yahoo:

Report Spam in Yahoo Search results here

But in this particular case, virtually 80% of the top 10 results contain spam (above screen shot).No one in this world will have the patience to report if there are that many spam results in one page.Well, Google has to think about this particular issue.

Using reCAPTCHA In Your Website To Prevent Comment Spamming

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Webmasters should always be conscious about the comments that they get in their sites.Spam comments in any form would affect his own website probably more that what he might have expected and sometimes even may get injected with spam content inside the website domain (read this example).

Webmasters are the responsible for comments on their site and sometimes comments also are considered as the site content.Spammers might leave their site links in the comments which may contain malware or other disgusting content that may be annoying to the typical reader of your site.This is particularly too for blogs.Thankfully, there are plugins like WP-SpamFree (my favourite).

I have come across another possible solution to this comment spamming problem when I came across this post from Google webmaster blog.

Using reCAPTCHA

recaptcha example

CAPTCHA, (short name for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a technology that allows us to make sure only humans can post comments or interact with other features of your website.

reCAPTCHA, is a free service owned by Google allows you to use CAPTCHA technology on your site for free.Just signup for reCAPTCHA, get an API key and use this key to setup reCAPTCHA on your site.If you are using WordPress, just install this WordPress CAPTCHA plugin and configure reCAPTCHA for your blog with your API key.

reCAPTCHA Email Protection (Mail hide):

reCAPTCHA also offers “Email Protection” for free.It works this way:

You may have to reveal your email address somewhere on the web and then the spammers through automated programs try to get access to your email and bombard your inbox with loads of spam mails.

When you use reCAPTCHA Email Protection enabled for your email, you email address will be shown fully only to users who enter the code through CAPTCHA, others will see it hidden like this one for example:

john…@example.com

To expand  that email address, users have to go through CAPTCHA that filters automated programs.

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