Google Letting Webmasters Know of Penalties

[toddieg]

cutts finally posted some good info.
i guess the new sitemaps console will now notify you if your site is being penalized.

but the catch is, not ALL sites will be informed.... that's to keep you guessing.

it's somewhere on cutts' blog. too lazy to link to it.

ps. good to be back.

[Wit]

Only for whitehats. It's cool if they can tell...

Could be worth doing a little test LOL

[mvandemar]

Um... didn't Google start sending out emails like, last year...?

-Michael

[SearchEngineNerds]

They already send out sites that are at risk of getting banned for use of blackhat techniques. Now they will tell otherwise clean sites that they have been penalized, whereas up until now it was anyone's guess.

[anthonycea]

You don't need an email, just look at your amount of indexed pages!

[mvandemar]

Any idea where this info will be?

-Michael

[SearchEngineNerds]

sent via email

[mvandemar]

Cool, thanks.

-Michael

[pittbug]

Cutts blog entry: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/notify...-of-penalties/

[Sorvoja]

It appears like they will start to take css in account. It might not be to smart of me to block access to the external css using robots.txt anymore?