Google sending "You are Banned" emails to Webmasters who violate Quality Standards

**5urlcom** · 09-20-2005, 05:36 PM

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-communication/

This blog is by the chief Engineer for Google - He reveals information that you could not have gotten from the Google Guy Replies

Now, they will ban you for any little BullS***T

- the site he is using as a example - just has two lines of Hidden text - but is a quality site - that is doing EVERYTHING else right

**luke456** · 09-21-2005, 01:22 AM

thanks very much for the very informative post and the link

**shabbirbhimani** · 09-21-2005, 02:14 AM

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Google sending "You are Banned" emails to Webmasters who violate Quality Standards

They should.

**gringo** · 09-21-2005, 03:49 AM

I think it's good that if you do something google doesn't like, they will tell you why.

But then I guess if you are making keyword stuffed text the same colour as the background, you already know why

**brokensoul2271** · 09-21-2005, 04:18 AM

ok so if i have hidden text i may get banned? but many sites hide text and use javascript to reveal it for things like content switchers... hmmm *shrug*

**gringo** · 09-21-2005, 04:51 AM

The text in question was the same colour as the background. This was a deliberate attempt to hide stuffed keywords to get higher rankings. Different to the javascript that you're proposing.