Malware and Google
When you’re an online person, there’s many times you choose to open a site and realise that there’s a warning saying that the particular site in question could harm your computer. What do you do? Most likely, you pay attention and don’t open the site ad keep searching further because you don’t want to bring on additional trouble, the results could be drastic. For a webmaster this can be a disturbing experience because what if you think you’re on the right track and Google still tags you as harmful? However, now there is a solution, your SEO efforts need not go in vain. Google has made public an explanation that allows SEO enthusiasts and webmasters to know why they are being blacklisted.
It explains how Google users’ scanners to determine what is harmful content and considers worms, viruses, spyware, and various types of malware. If the scanners detect a compromised page, such a warning is added. Such warnings can have negative effects in regards to referrals. Te worst being, Google doesn’t send out any messages before they place such negative warnings. However, you can fix these problems with the help of Google’s guidelines and this will take care of your SEO worries.
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Actually this happens to me a lot of times. I will open a website and pops out this big red screen saying that this page may have harmful content. What I do in this situation is simply close the page and move on.
Now, I did notice that this situation varies depending on the browser I use. This red screens are more often on Chrome and if I open the same page on Firefox, this does not happen. I would like to know if you have some sort of explanation for this. Thanks
Yup I did experience that too. In fact what I think is Google is quite annoying. I mean who are they to judge a web site that way? Although the website might really is a problematic site but Google is like judging a website for users assuming the users will never know to judge. I don’t really like it. I feel myself being controlled by the big red screen.
So true, Google should not be judging websites like that. Many non-expert users take whatever Google says for granted, and your site might get ‘blacklisted’ for no reason.
It’s nice that Google want to protect internet users, but this is not the way it should be. Most webmasters put a lot of effort in creating their website.
Btw, do you have a link to that ‘public explanation’ of Google?