How To Avoid Getting Your Search Rankings Trashed By Malware

Sep 4, 2009 at 5:25pm ET by Jonathan Hochman

As if SEOs don’t have enough things to worry about already, add malware to the list. Why does malware matter to SEOs? If the site you are working on gets infected, its search traffic will plummet. Search engines attempt to remove infected pages from their search results, or they label them with an ominous warning, such as This site may damage your computer. Back in 2008 Google reported that malware infected pages had increased to more than 1% of all search results. Google posted a malware statistics update last week. Malware infections have more than doubled since April 2009. Search res [...]

Filed in: Google: Security, How To: SEO, Search Features: Safety

YouTube To Become More Kid Friendly?

Apr 20, 2009 at 9:30am ET by Barry Schwartz

Ars Technica reports Google has informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they have been working on a new filtering system for videos, comments and communication on YouTube. It is believed that Google is working on these changes in order to make YouTube more kid or family friendly, by complying more with the FCC regulations for TV viewing. Google wrote to the FCC: Google Inc. (“Google”), by its attorneys, files these comments in response to the Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) issued by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) initiating a pro [...]

Filed in: Google: YouTube & Video, Legal: Security, Search Features: Safety

Ask.com & Symantec Partner To Detect Malicious Sites

Feb 3, 2009 at 12:01am ET by Chris Sherman

Ask.com has partnered with Symantec to include a new "Safe Search" feature into the Norton 360 security suite, integrated into the Norton toolbar that is part of the suite. When a search is run from the toolbar, results are safety-rated by Symantec using a color-coded icon, to flag sites or sections of sites that may be malicious or harmful. Mousing over a rating will open a popup window offering more details about the Safe Search rating. The toolbar works on both Internet Explorer and Firefox, and is set by default to not display "red" or potentially malicious web site in search results. [...]

Filed in: Ask: Web Search, Search Features: Safety

Has Microsoft Live Search Detected Malware On Your Site?

Dec 4, 2008 at 12:59pm ET by Vanessa Fox

Recently, Microsoft Live Search added malware warnings to their search results. If a searcher clicks a result that Microsoft has detected contains malware, a popup warns then not to proceed to the site. As Matt noted yesterday, Google and Yahoo! also provide malware warnings to searchers. How can you find out if Microsoft has flagged your site for malware and how can you let them know you've fixed the problem? As part of this update, Microsoft Live Search also launched an update to their Webmaster Center that added alerts about malware. You can generate a report of all pages on your site t [...]

Filed in: Features: General, How To: SEO, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing SEO, Search Features: Safety, Top News

Live Search Adds Malware Warnings To Search Results

Dec 3, 2008 at 1:25am ET by Matt McGee

MSN's Live Search has announced the addition of malware warnings to their search results pages. In doing so, Live Search joins Google and Yahoo in taking a proactive stance against potentially dangerous sites; Google began adding malware warnings in early 2007. Yahoo added SearchScan alerts in May of this year. The Live Search implementation is different from how the other two search engines show malware warnings. When a potentially harmful page shows up in the Live Search results, users see no warning until they actually try to click on the link. When they do click, a small "pop-up" bo [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Search Features: Safety, Top News

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