WebPosition Banned
WebPosition, one of the leading web ranking and optimization applications, has been de-indexed by Google. Webposition.com and Webpositiongold.com are both showing up as not found in Google. Both domains are returning zero indexed pages. A “link:” command shows no incoming links.
Google may be cracking down on companies that have been automating queries. Instead of opting to block IPs Google may have decided to drop WebPosition’s site from their index.
A couple months ago GoogleGuy issued a warning over at WebmasterWorld:
Recently, we’ve started to improve the software, and it can also detect lots of things like rank checking and other automatic queries to Google. Of course, we don’t show the message to everybody that comes onto our radar, but our new software looks pretty good at detecting programmatic queries. If you’re using WebPosition or other software that sends queries to Google from a program, I’m not surprised if you’re going over a threshold where your queries are on the radar.
If you do see this message, I would recommend not sending so many queries to Google–the volume or type of queries are unusual enough that it’s attracting greater scrutiny from us. If you avoid sending queries to Google from a program, you’ll be as right as rain.
Best wishes,
GoogleGuy
If anyone else is seeing this or if they think there is something else behind it - leave a comment!
Michael Nguyen | Search Engine Marketing | Comments (21)
May 10th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
Google does the smackdown on WebPositionGold
Google does the smackdown on WebPositionGold
Both webposition.com
and webpositiongold.com have been removed from Google’s index. Both site and
link commands show zero results. Google has been on a rampage to attack sites
that send automat…
May 11th, 2005 at 4:22 am
More Google Banning
It looks like google it’s back at it again. Now there are news that it has completely banned Webposition.com and www.webpositiongold.com. It looks like they have started craking into sites and tools that send automated queries to google, I knew tha…
July 24th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
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July 25th, 2005 at 1:51 am
July 25th, up again.
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July 27th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
hmm
what do u think:
site:yoursite.com - 57-70k
link:yoursite.com - 1200
info:yoursite.com - 0
and dropped traffic from google
is it the same situation? or something else and how to repair this ?
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November 7th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
So if a competitor decides to send a high volume of queries for your website to Google with a programme like Webposition they can get you delisted? Seems like a major flaw in Googles thinking on this one
November 7th, 2005 at 7:31 pm
No, Google does not want you automating quering Google. So if they can track the queries back to the IP the queries are coming from and figure out that IP belongs to a certain site, they might punish your site.
You can’t affect someone elses site using a program like Webposition.
December 7th, 2005 at 3:48 pm
Sorry about commenting on an older post, but I read this entry with interest. Webpositions main rival, Web CEO also had their site banned from Google around the same time.
They have told me they expect to be back in the index soon, and that the problem was affiliates producting duplicate copies of their website. Perhaps this was part of the problem with Webposition, who were (and still are) give away a template of their website to all affiliates?
December 31st, 2005 at 12:02 pm
It looks like webposition is back in the index, although googles cache says it was last cached in august. Has anyone seen sites that use WEB CEO or webpostion gold get banned??
I have a few new clients that state they have done nothing “blakchat” but have been banned by Google.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:31 am
Hi Guys,
This post is an example of why the intra-webs should not be trusted for the most accurate of reporting…
WebPosition.com was removed from Google many, many, many moons ago.
They even wrote about it a few years ago:
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2004/01/dispelling_the.html
Yes it does appear to be back.. well just the domain for now anyway.
The risk is that you might get your IP address blocked (think of it like caller ID from your internet sevice provider) if you go crazy with automated searches because every search you perform leaves an IP address with it.
So if you search on 1000’s of terms in a few minutes time… you are either using an automated search product or you are sharing a network between several computers. This block can stop you from searching for a few minutes, hours, etc. from an engine.
For example:
http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2005/06/stupid_google_virusspyware_cap.html
Unless your website is being hosted from the same computer or IP address that you are using that automated tool from your site is not going to be banned.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
This is what Google says about WebPosition that causes all of the controversy (from the link above):
“Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.”
But don’t get me wrong…
Google would never ever… use an automated search tool themselves to scrape results from other websites:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/22/google_imperfect10/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Yahoo!+-+999+Unable+to+process+request+at+this+time+–+error+999&hl=en&hs=67G&lr=&c2coff=1&num=100&filter=0
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September 11th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
our old site was de-indexed and i think it was probably due to our use of the web position gold 4. i never liked the auto submission aspect of the program, but my boss thinks he is saving money!
i hand submit everything. yes this is tedious, but it needs to be done, whether by a program or a human.
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