Yahoo Outing Sites That Send Spam Emails in Search Results
Lee Mccoy has spotted an interesting feature in the Yahoo search results today.
The warnings are powered by McAfee and will probably kill 90% of search traffic to that site. How long before Google does the same?
The link leads to this page:
babyexperiences.co.uk
After entering our e-mail address on this site, we received 2.4 e-mails per week. They were very spammy.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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I’m all for naming and shaming sites but I hope they’re confident in their sources. It would get very messy if sites were falsely accused of spam.
I had this a few months ago and had a similar message back. It also went on to say that this might be due to my website.
I ended up registering to McAfee SiteAdvisor and about two months later it was removed.
Yahoo has been doing this since May time…
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017063.html
This is a great new feature. The more the search engines actively do to call out the bad players, the better.
Now if Google just had one that said “This site ranks here because they are scamming us with Digital Point Network” under some of the search results, that would be great.
Barry – I had seen malware reports before but never reports that the site had been responsible for spam emails.
If only their search results wont suck…
I’ve noticed this a while back.. July-August! But if Yahoo! knew they were spamming .. why not penalize (lol) ?
While I’m all for the tar and feathering of companies that spam, are they sure of their sources? I’ve had folk complain about spam after they’d signed up. Anyhow… more incentive to keep checking your listings (ie. running searches in) Yahoo! ?
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