I have reported several sites to Google that are using illegal
SEO tactics to get top placemnets for popular keywords that I am trying to place for my clients.
This is how Google responded
Thank you for your note. We understand your frustration and are constantly
working to improve the quality of our search results. As you may already
know, we've devoted a section of our site to helping webmasters understand
some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed
entirely from the Google index. Please visit our Webmaster Guidelines at
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html for information on
creating and maintaining a 'Google-friendly' website.
If you encounter sites that are trying to deceive our web crawlers, please
submit a report at
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html. We use
these reports to collect data that our engineers use to devise scalable
solutions to fight spam in our search results. Please note that we are not
always able to take action on individual sites as a result of these
reports. However, please be assured that we are using the information to
make large-scale improvements to our system.
We appreciate your assistance in maintaining the quality of our search
results.
Regards,
The Google Team
I am surprised that Google will not take action on an individual site. What are your thoughts?
Here is one of the offenders
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...en&lr=&strip=1
cache text does not match site.