Blocking Sites Within Google Goes International
Google announced that the blocking sites feature introduced in the US based results in March this year, is now available internationally. Google’s Johannes Henkel said “starting today, you can now block sites on most Google domains.” Here is a picture of blocking Matt Cutts blog in Google France: As discussed before, there is a dashboard […]
Barry Schwartz on September 13, 2011 at 4:54 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Google announced that the blocking sites feature introduced in the US based results in March this year, is now available internationally.
Google’s Johannes Henkel said “starting today, you can now block sites on most Google domains.”
Here is a picture of blocking Matt Cutts blog in Google France:
As discussed before, there is a dashboard to manage sites that you block. So you can add new blocked sites, remove sites you blocked and so on.
Google did not specify which international Google properties this does not work on, but they did say it should work on “most Google domains.”
Finally, Google re-confirms that they are using this data as a ranking signal in their algorithm.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.