Forbes Blocks Its Coupon Directory Before Google Enforces The Site Reputation Abuse Policy

seroundtable.com— Forbes has blocked its coupons section of its web site at forbes.com/coupons using an x-robots-tag: noindex directive prior to Google enforcing the upcoming site reputation abuse policy. As a reminder, Google will enforce that new policy on May 5th both algorithmically and through manual actions.Laura Chiocciora notified me of this change on X saying, "It seems like Forbes put a noindex x-robots-tag on its Coupon folder a few days ago." I checked the HTTP header for the coupon directory and...

PPC Land—Google cracks down on Site Reputation Abuse. Google last quarter announced an update to its search algorithm and introduced new spam policies, including one specifically targeting site reputation abuse.

seroundtable.com—Google Spam Reporting Tool To Gain Site Reputation Abuse. Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said that the search company will add the upcoming site reputation abuse policy to the spam reporting tool when the policy begins to be enforced. So sometime after May 5, 2024, the report spam form will gain a new option to report site reputation abuse.Sullivan said this on X, responding to a question if the form will gain this new option. Sullivan responded saying, "Yes, it should get updated to allow reporting of that spam type when that policy takes...

Search Engine Land—Reminder: New Google Search reputation abuse policy starts soon. Google's new Search spam policy related to reputation abuse (or parasite SEO) will take effect in just a few days, after May 5.