Google Sends Hundreds Of Thousands Of Webmaster Notifications Each Month & 90% Are Black Hat Related

Google’s Matt Cutts shared some new statistics in a recent video about the types of notifications Google sends out via Google Webmaster Tools.

Google sends approximately “hundreds of thousands” of messages each month to webmasters. The categories of those messages break down as follows:

• 90% of those messages are black hat related
• 4% are notifications of content that have little or no value add
• 3% are hacking notifications
• 2% are about link buying
• 1% are about link selling

Here is the video:

The last time we had an update on the number or categories of types of notifications was a few months ago and in terms of the amount of notifications was in March 2012.