Comments on: Is your blog living in a ‘bad’ neighbourhood?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:49:48 +0000

Same here. Is there anyway of seeing what the search engines consider ‘bad neighbours’?

By: Andy F

Andy F — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:41:42 +0000

Ok, so I’ve checked out YouGetSignal and it’s flagged up 2 websites on the same hosting that it says contain explicit content.

I’ve checked and they don’t. But what if Google is thinking the same way? Is there anyway to check what Google thinks?

By: Kredit

Kredit — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:11:18 +0000

yahoo has some similar features for the “report spam” button in their email. Instead of treating mails individually, they state they want to build IP and server patterns, and then ban all of them at once.

By: Emirhan

Emirhan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:26:30 +0000

One good thing about the whole issue, is that Google moves slowly. It takes them enough time to find a misbehaving website, and it takes even more misbehaving in order for google to take serious steps, such as IP banning.

Technically, it’s gambling, who finds the problem first? The host, to stop the account, or Google?

Yahoo has some similar features for the “report spam” button in their email. Instead of treating mails individually, they state they want to build IP and server patterns, and then ban all of them at once, with a single stroke. So far so good, I haven’t had issues, but some innocent people may find their emails blocked after such actions, too.

Now let’s see where I’m standing .. never knew there’s such a tool for checking ..

By: Aerobatics instruction

Aerobatics instruction — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:17:06 +0000

I frankly speaking cant believe this will be common practice as this could affect all people that are on shared hosting. And commonly those are not the people engaging in black hat practices. Lets see…