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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
First, a brief recap: In late 2005, we started
emailing webmasters
to let them know that their site is violating our
Webmaster Guidelines and that we have temporarily removed
some of their pages from our index. A few months ago we
put these emails on hold
due to a number of spoofed messages being sent from outside Google, primarily to German
webmasters. Then, in mid-July, we
launched Message Center
in our webmaster console, which allows us to send messages to verified site owners.
While Message Center is great for verified site owners, it doesn't allow us to notify webmasters
who aren't registered in Google's
Webmaster Tools.
For this reason, we plan to resume sending emails in addition to the Message Center notifications.
Please note that, as before, our emails will not include attachments. Currently, the Message
Center won't keep messages waiting if you haven't previously registered, but we hope to add that
feature in the next few months. We'll keep you posted as things change.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],[],[[["\u003cp\u003eGoogle is resuming email notifications to webmasters regarding website guideline violations and index removals, supplementing the Message Center notifications within Webmaster Tools.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThis resumption addresses the limitation of Message Center, which primarily reaches verified site owners registered in Google's Webmaster Tools, leaving out unregistered webmasters.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe emails will not contain any attachments, maintaining the security measure established in previous communications to combat spoofed messages.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eAlthough Message Center currently lacks a message holding feature for unregistered users, Google plans to implement this functionality in the coming months for improved communication.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["Google is resuming emails to webmasters regarding guideline violations, in addition to using the Message Center launched in July. This action follows a previous pause due to spoofed messages. Emails will not include attachments and will target unregistered webmasters, unlike the Message Center. The Message Center will add the ability to save messages for unregistered users in the future. These actions are to communicate with webmasters about issues related to their sites.\n"],null,["# Update on penalty notifications\n\nWednesday, August 29, 2007\n\n\nFirst, a brief recap: In late 2005, we started\n[emailing webmasters](https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-communication/)\nto let them know that their site is violating our\n[Webmaster Guidelines](/search/docs/essentials) and that we have temporarily removed\nsome of their pages from our index. A few months ago we\n[put these emails on hold](/search/blog/2007/05/about-those-fake-penalty-notification)\ndue to a number of spoofed messages being sent from outside Google, primarily to German\nwebmasters. Then, in mid-July, we\n[launched Message Center](/search/blog/2007/07/message-center-let-us-communicate-with)\nin our webmaster console, which allows us to send messages to verified site owners.\n\n\nWhile Message Center is great for verified site owners, it doesn't allow us to notify webmasters\nwho aren't registered in Google's\n[Webmaster Tools](https://search.google.com/search-console).\nFor this reason, we plan to resume sending emails in addition to the Message Center notifications.\nPlease note that, as before, our emails will not include attachments. Currently, the Message\nCenter won't keep messages waiting if you haven't previously registered, but we hope to add that\nfeature in the next few months. We'll keep you posted as things change.\n\nWritten by Ben D'Angelo, Search Quality Team"]]
