Please report all the spam/rubbish/crap sites and blogs in Google news here. Please don't chat or discuss in this thread, you just report it to Google. Instead of opening individual threads for reporting spam, you can use this thread. It would be easy for Google staff too.
How can you conclude a site unfit in Google news?
1) Bad SEO practices like keyword stuffing. 2) Author not having enough knowledge on the subject he handles. 3) Biased/advise/how-to/tricks-tips sorta content 4) lifting others' articles. 5) Irritating users with 'unavoidable' advertisements. 6) Showing irrelevant news (like a Health news site publishing iPhone articles)
How can you report it here effectively?
1) Give the URL of the website. 2) Give the reason for the report. 3) Give the URL of the disputed article with details.
Request for the reporters!
1) Please don't complain here without the evidence For Google staff
Please act immediately on the reports you see here.
Who am I?
A Journalist, and a fellow Google news publisher like you. We only write news for our locality without actually bothering about Google trends or something.
We want clean and professional websites in Google news reporting the local news effectively for their cities. We want journalists to write news, not the common people who doesn't know anything!
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How about the 'reporter' identifies his own news website prior to reporting, so that there is some transparency to this whole thing.
About 98% of the people popping in here complaining about 'spam' news websites want their competition gone so it's creating an environment where everyone and anyone can get the boot.
By your strict standards huge and popular sites like The Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal should be regarded as 'unfit' for Google News. Almost any 'smaller' site can hence get booted if enough people complain about it, even if it's 99% legit.
I know about all those little things in
Google news, and I am not here to report about silly little things in
others' websites.
I know many people will stuff keywords, I don't mind it as long as it's a proper sentence.
\\Dance India Dance Finals Results: Did Little Master Winner is Jeetumoni’ For more updates’ did little master, did little master results, did little master grand finale, did winner, did 2 winner. Jitu Mony awarded the KBC3 Cup in a grand ceremony in Pune.//
This is an excerpt from the site I have complained about. Is this paragraph making any sense?
People
can work within their 'fair' limits, and I don't think many publishers
are doing that. I am happy with my small site presenting news for my
city with 200,000 population, and I have no competitors too. The problem
comes when people start writing about things that they never know!
Well, we only can report here, and the ultimate Judge here would be Google.
Fair enough Gnewscleaner, spam is spam and I agree it has no place in Google News. I'm just worried that these spam site owners are going to start reporting the legit sites as 'spam' and make it an uncomfortable environment for anyone in Google News.
I have seen that many of the complaints on these forums (yours not included) come from people who can barely put a sentence together and if it's these people who are voting which sites get booted from Google news, then everyone is at their mercy.
We know very well that Google doesn't hand out warnings or any clear rules to follow (quality 'guidelines' are so vague), so it's quite a sad prospect that these 'spammers' can effectively also remove the legit sites completely.
the sites below are ALL associated with the e brian rose ebook. they got into the system because they used his LIES AND TRICKS in order to get in.
1) http://mywaybusiness.com/ - this is rose's example site, he definately has more than 1 in the system. e brian rose = greedy, lies and tricks his way into google news.
2) http://www.smoode.com/ - steven mount, one of the site operators, is a complete dumbarse. he tried to show off by posting a youtube clip, boasting his achievements on getting into the google news feed. as of this writing, this site has been taken down. (steve mount = moronic)
3) http://www.powernewsnetwork.com/ - one of the early adopters of the ebook methods. lied and tricked his way into google news.
all are verifiable from the different posts in the thread over there.
its funny how beginning 08/06/2010, rose stopped selling his ebook (at least on that site). it was because @pingable, who expose this greedy bastard.
Spam site with ads everywhere. They steal articles from
other sites and call it theirs. Also, it is a real estate site but they are
writing articles based on popular searches.
Fiint is a spam website and you can check the website itself. There are numerous post on this website that is only moderated or even created by only one person. It is clearly a violation of Google News term of services.
Reviewing this site TechBanyan violates most of the Google News Terms.
1) Author not having enough knowledge on the subject he handles. 2) There is only one author here, it means it is only manage by a single person and it's a violation
3) lifting others' articles. 4) Showing irrelevant news (like a Health news site publishing iPhone articles)
5) Irritating users with 'unavoidable' advertisements.
how are they working against their hated rivals? most of the reported websites on this page are truly SPAMMERS. they go to some press release site or other places and steal their articles and put it as their own. then they apply for google news inclusion and they get accepted. then they start spamming google for competitive keywords! the system is broken!
that is why Google are removing those sites out of Google News.
Excerpt from one of their spam articles: Watch Inception Online & Update Status In Free Streaming. The Box Results at Inception Movie, As expected, The Other Guys Movie was # 1 at Box Office this weekend, however, slightly higher than the industry’s expectations.
So the Box Office is now called 'BOXED RESULTS' ..... ok... yeah , DEINDEX THIS SITE!
I remember somewhere this was raised as spam earlier. But Google still accepting. They all just promote products and most of the time when you open article, it redirects to product pages. Google news is full of warwick online. You can personally search it.
Where is the Keywords Spamming? The URL is clean and clear. If you are speaking about the Big red letters then i am sorry those are all tags and not nothing to do with the News Crawler.
Note: I am no way in relation with the site but i do not want this thread to divert so that is why posting this. Please report only real spam sites
I found this threat by accident but after reading this post I have come to realize that you people are crazy. I don't own a Google site and don't care to. Google will always be full of spam just like adsense, natural search and Google news. Who give a damn, get a life people. You think Google gives a damn about you, you think your smarter? Well I have news for you your not.
I am sure Google knows they have spam sites, they approved them so let Google figure, By reading some of these comments you would think you people worked for Google.
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