Google in their official blog has announced about badware notifications. Google already notifies the user by showing warnings on surfing badware sites and Google has planned a better way for badware notifications. Google’s work with stopbadware.org and integration of malware notifications in webmaster tools were the preliminary steps taken. Now steps have been taken to alert webmasters.

Along with informing webmasters about their sites and further steps to be taken, Google has planned to give some examples of badware sites which will be more helpful to diagonize their sites. An example in the webmastercentral blog was

A common occurrence with compromised sites is the insertion of a 1-pixel iframe causing the automatic download of badware from another site.

The next is to notify through Emails. When Google flags a site as a badware the webmaster of the site will be intimated. As Google was not able to determine the perfect email addresses, the email will be sent to webmasters@domain or admin@domain and etc.

In future webmasters may provide their preffered email-id’s. So these notifications from Google for webmasters will be more helpful for handling badware sites.

Mark

Tags : Google, Webmasters, Badware notification, Webmaster tool

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