Jason wrote: Hi Nenah: That's interesting, and I'll continue to watch this closely. That said, a Russian hacker hacked one page on my site a few years ago to run a malicious re-direct script to sell fake hand bags, and one of domains was dropped without warning. I found the issue myself, researched the policy (and then understood why it had to be a zero tolerance policy).
Having found the issue, I corrected it, went through the re-inclusion steps as outlined by Google (which allows you to explain the issue), and was re-included. The policy, as I understand it, is zero tolerance, zero exceptions, zero excuses. As far as I've seen, it has not been abused. It doesn't matter if the issue is on a subdomain or the main domain, or even an old page, or even if another "user" or "ad network" places the code. In my case, the page wasn't even part of my "linked" website. About Natural News, here is what the Google technician wrote: "Hi! I work with the Google Search team. We're seeing a bit of confusion & incorrect stories circulating about what's happening here, so just to be super clear -- Natural News is using a sneaky mobile redirect, which is prohibited by our webmaster guidelines (there's a bit about this kind o issue at https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/10/detect-and-get-rid-of-unwanted-sne aky.html ). These redirects aren't always easy to reproduce, they're sometimes in widgets or served by ad networks, and can target specific devices, browsers, or user locations. When we last checked, there was one on http://blogs. naturalnews.com/bentonite-clay-a-natural-medicine-cabinet-must-have/ . As soon as this is cleaned up, the site can submit a reconsideration request through Search Console, and once that's reviewed things will return to normal. No action has been taken based on the editorial content of this site." ======================= Hi Jason. Thanks for the post. I read that too. And yet, after listening to this discussion, which contains a lot of sobering food for thought-go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji4HRD96pbs -I'm convinced that Google looked for an excuse to take out Adams. They found a (legitimate, minor) violation. The timing simply strikes me as VERY coincidental. Adams has been publishing some pretty hard-hitting articles on biosludge, the TSA, medical fraud, and government involvement in the manufacture of illegal drugs. I guess he's got some people pretty worried. But, of course, the only thing to do is to wait and see what happens. Nenah
