Welcome Back CO.CC To Google

Six months ago, Google delisted all sites on a co.cc domain name. Today, they seem to have all returned. A search for [site:co.cc] currently returns 105,000,000 results. Google originally delisted the co.cc subdomains because Google saw a “very large fraction of sites” on that subdomain to be “spammy or low-quality” and felt it was warranted, […]

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Six months ago, Google delisted all sites on a co.cc domain name. Today, they seem to have all returned.

A search for [site:co.cc] currently returns 105,000,000 results.

Cocc Returns Google

Google originally delisted the co.cc subdomains because Google saw a “very large fraction of sites” on that subdomain to be “spammy or low-quality” and felt it was warranted, in this case, to simply block the whole subdomain from showing up in Google’s results.

I am not sure if this change was intentional or a bug where after we write about it Google will delist the subdomains again.

Here is what the results looked like previously:

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Now that many of the results are back, you can check for yourself to see how spammy or low-quality co.cc sites are or are not.

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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