{"id":2129,"date":"2009-01-20T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2009-01-20T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T00:13:44","slug":"google-zaps-debitoorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"Google zaps Debito.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Handbook<\/a>\"\\\"<\/a>\"Foreign<\/a>\"\\\"<\/a>\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\"<\/a>\"JAPANESE<\/a>
\nHi Blog. \u00a0Some Blog Biz today.<\/p>\n

I got the following notification from Google the other day:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>From: <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 noreply@google.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/span>Subject: <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/span>Removal from Google’s Index<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/span>Date: <\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/span>January 9, 2009 10:12:37 PM JST<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear site owner or webmaster of debito.org,<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here:\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en<\/strong><\/a>. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>We detected cloaking on your site and suspect this is the cause. For example at\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.debito.org\/<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0we found:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Cloaked information deleted because if I cite it here, it will in fact be found by search spiders for real. \u00a0It’s a string of words regarding medications and potions for various ills and predilections.]<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information about what cloaking is, visit\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=66355&hl=en<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from debito.org are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/em>We would prefer to keep your pages in Google’s index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. When such changes have been made, please visit\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/reconsideration?hl=en<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/em>Note: if you have an account in Google’s Webmaster Tools, you can verify the authenticity of this message by logging into<\/strong><\/em>https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/siteoverview?hl=en<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and going to the Message Center.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ends. \u00a0I have since notified my sysadmin of the problem, but he cannot find these keywords anywhere on the site. \u00a0There are apparently even ways to project these onto the site remotely to fool the search engines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Debito.org has since been delisted from Google. \u00a0I have of course notified Google of both the situation (i.e. we can’t find the text they’re talking about) and of our inability to fix the problem. \u00a0I also expressed annoyance that, despite Google’s incredible reach throughout cyberspace, they are being irresponsible to say we have a problem, but not tell us on what page it’s on so we can fix it. \u00a0It’s like saying that we failed a test, but teacher isn’t going to say what questions we got wrong, or what we can study next time for the makeup. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So we’re stuck, with thousands of other pages of information about how make a life in Japan<\/a> (not on the blog) unsearchable. \u00a0Damned unfair. \u00a0And if Google keeps carrying on in this manner, a lot more places are going to be delisted unfairly; other bloggers beware.<\/p>\n

Advice from cyberspace appreciated. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tangent: Google has notified me that they’re delisting Debito.org from its search engines for cloaked text inserted on our site. Yet Google won’t reveal on what page it’s on so we can fix the problem. We can’t find it. So we’re stuck with an unfair delisting and that’s that. Advice from cyberspace appreciated, especially since this oddly-enforced policy will affect other websites and blogs as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}