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Originally Posted by steveareeno
I used Advanced Web Ranking to track both organic and PPC words and recently, when I do a "normal" Google search by going to Google.com and entering a search phrase, I have been greeted with a CAPTCHA form asking me to run antivirus and spyware software. Others in my organization are experiencing the same problem as we have one IP address for the company. Is this because of the reports I run once a week that queries search engines for words we wish to track or some other glitch? Of course, my reports that come back to me show a sparse showing for Google which is to be expected. I really dont track that many words (less than 50) which is probably much less than many other companies so I am really puzzled.
Second question...is there a way to determine if our IP address has been blacklisted with Google?
Thanks to all for your thoughts.
Steve
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Seems very likely to me. I've once been caught out like that - forgot to set the time delay between queries and promptly got blocked in a similar way. Fortunately we have a dynamic IP connection so I was able to reconnect on a new IP without disrupting anyone else too much.
Like you, we only check a small number of keywords at a time (and not that often), so it appears not to be the volume of terms, but the speed/frequency of query delivery from a particular IP.
Don't know what you can do about clearing the block though - would be interested to know if anyone else has any ideas.