Google Webmaster Tools Offers Notifications for Hacking and Abuse

Continuing with their effort to provide more useful information to webmasters, Google today announced that they will be sending more notifications to webmasters through Webmasters Tools’ Message Center regarding potential security issues on the sites they own.

Google Webmaster Tools seems to be the most important tool for any webmasters and bloggers for FREE and it is among the top tool now on the internet together with Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Tool.

These notifications are meant to alert webmasters of potential issues and provide next steps on how to get their sites fixed and back into Google’s search results. If it pertains to a hacking or abuse issue, the notification will point to example URLs exhibiting this type of behavior.

Google uses automatic algorithms and user feedback to compile lists of sites that may be dangerous.

Some of the Key Features of the Webmaster tool are

• Spammy or abused user-generated content
• Suspected hacking
• Abused forum pages or egregious amounts of comment spam

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