Google now completely blocks spammed forums

[Alpha1]

Out of curiosity though I'd be interested to know the scope/scale of the spam content ... and the time scale the spam was submitted over? It could be a site that has been "left to rot" with six months of accumulated spam, or it could have been hit one day and dropped from Google the next. That would make a big difference as to how much time a site owner has to correct it before being blocked!!!

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-clean-up-a-mass-of-spam-on-xenforo.71665/
300+ accounts registered and spammed 30.000 posts within a week. All anti-spam services were turned on. The admin was on holiday for the week. It could have been limited by applying some addons and a usergroup for new members with limited permissions.

 

[ehd]

Never let your forum go without you even for one day And never make one week of holidays without internet-access. At least this will never happen to me .D

 

[akia]

What people seem to be missing is that it was a manual penalty that was applied not an automatic one. So someone from Google has looked at the site and decided it should be applied. You'd have to be very unlucky to be in the middle of a spam attack at the same time as Google happen to be reviewing your site. Also there would have to be something wrong in the first place to have them manually review it anyway.

 

[Poltergeist]

Does this mean that Google is going to apply a manual block to YouTube in the near future?

 

[Amaury]

Does this mean that Google is going to apply a manual block to YouTube in the near future?

Why would YouTube be blocked by Google?

 

[Carlos]

Why would YouTube be blocked by Google?

Yes, Google owns YouTube, but read the tone. What he's saying is that because spam does happen on YouTube, "Does this mean that YouTube is omitted from this?" Or something to that effect.

In general, people hit YouTube hard enough that at times, you'd think it's spam.

 

[Amaury]

Yes, Google owns YouTube.

Exactly my point.

 

[Poltergeist]

Yes, Google owns YouTube, but read the tone. What he's saying is that because spam does happen on YouTube, "Does this mean that YouTube is omitted from this?" Or something to that effect.

In general, people hit YouTube hard enough that at times, you'd think it's spam.

Some one got it.