Google Stops Sending Penalty Notification Emails Due To Fake Warnings
Vanessa Fox posted an update to fake German Google webmaster penalty notifications that I reported yesterday. In that post, she explained that the emails sent from [email protected] warning that your site will be banned from the Google.de index are fake. Google will temporarily be halting the notification of webmaster penalty emails until they can “provide […]
Barry Schwartz on May 11, 2007 at 9:13 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Vanessa Fox posted an update to fake German Google webmaster penalty notifications that I reported yesterday. In that post, she explained that the emails sent from [email protected] warning that your site will be banned from the Google.de index are fake.
Google will temporarily be halting the notification of webmaster penalty emails until they can “provide more secure communication mechanisms” for these notifications. I am very curious how they plan on implementing new webmaster email notifications.
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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.