{"id":23998,"date":"2008-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/the-impact-of-user-feedback-part-1\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:00:00","slug":"the-impact-of-user-feedback-part-1","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/the-impact-of-user-feedback-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Tuesday, June 03, 2008<\/p>\n<aside class=\"key-point\">It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore).<\/aside>\n<p>\n  About a year ago, in response to user feedback,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/more-ways-for-you-to-give-us-input\/\">we created a paid links reporting form<\/a><br \/>\n  within Webmaster Tools. User feedback, through reporting<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">paid links<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">webspam<\/a>, or<br \/>\n  suggestions in our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">Webmaster Help Group<\/a>,<br \/>\n  has been invaluable in ensuring that the quality of our index and our tools is as high as<br \/>\n  possible. Today, I&#8217;d like to highlight the impact that reporting paid links and webspam has had<br \/>\n  on our index. In a future post, I&#8217;ll showcase how user feedback and concerns in the Webmaster Help<br \/>\n  Group have helped us improve our Help Center documentation and Webmaster Tools.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"reporting-paid-links\" tabindex=\"-1\">Reporting Paid Links<\/h2>\n<p>\n  As mentioned in the post<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/information-about-buying-and-selling-links-that-pass-pagerank\/\">Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank<\/a>,<br \/>\n  Google reserves the right to take action on sites that buy or sell links that pass PageRank for<br \/>\n  the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings. Even though we work hard to discount these<br \/>\n  links through algorithmic detection, if you see a site that is buying or selling links that pass<br \/>\n  PageRank, <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">please let us know<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Over the last year, users have submitted thousands and thousands of paid link reports to Google,<br \/>\n  and each report can contain multiple websites that are suspected of selling links. These reports<br \/>\n  are actively reviewed, and the feedback is invaluable to improve our search algorithms. We also<br \/>\n  are willing to take manual action on a significant fraction of paid link reports as we continue<br \/>\n  to improve our algorithms. More importantly, the hard work of users who have already reported<br \/>\n  paid links has helped improve the quality of our index for millions. For more information on<br \/>\n  reporting paid links, check out<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">this Help Center article<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"reporting-webspam\" tabindex=\"-1\">Reporting Webspam<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Google has also provided a form to report general webspam since November 2001. We appreciate users<br \/>\n  who alert us to potential abuses for the sake of the whole Internet community. Spam reports come<br \/>\n  in two flavors: an<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">authenticated form<\/a> that requires<br \/>\n  registration in<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\" class=\"external-link\">Webmaster Tools<\/a>,<br \/>\n  and an <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">unauthenticated form<\/a>. We receive<br \/>\n  hundreds of reports each day. Spam reports to the authenticated form are given more weight and are<br \/>\n  individually investigated more often. Spam reports to the unauthenticated form are assessed in<br \/>\n  terms of impact, and a large fraction of those are reviewed as well. As Udi Manber, VP of<br \/>\n  Engineering and Search Quality mentioned in his recent<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/introduction-to-google-search-quality.html\" class=\"external-link\">blog post<\/a><br \/>\n  on our Official Google Blog, in 2007 more than 450 new improvements were made to our search<br \/>\n  algorithms. A number of those improvements were related to webspam. It&#8217;s not an understatement<br \/>\n  to say that users who have taken the time to report spam were essential to many of those<br \/>\n  algorithmic enhancements.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"going-forward\" tabindex=\"-1\">Going forward<\/h2>\n<p>\n  As users&#8217; expectations of search increase daily, we know it&#8217;s important to provide a high quality<br \/>\n  index with relevant results. We&#8217;re always happy to hear stories in our Webmaster Help Group from<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing\/browse_thread\/thread\/4ba7a489d72e74e8\" class=\"external-link\">users who have have reported spam<\/a><br \/>\n  with noticeable results in our Webmaster Help Group. Now that you know how Google uses feedback to<br \/>\n  improve our search quality, you may want to tell us about webspam you&#8217;ve seen in our results.<br \/>\n  Please use our authenticated form to report<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">paid links<\/a> oder<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">other types of webspam<\/a>. Thanks again<br \/>\n  for taking the time to help us improve.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search Quality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, June 03, 2008 It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore). About a year ago, in response to user feedback, we created a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. 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