Google blacklisting is well known from Search Engine Optimiser and webmasters. Complaints are provided thanks to Google Spam Report service.
But recently, some US webmasters received an alert from Google. The Google News Blacklsting is going to become the new nightmare of SEO. Is it the beginning of the Blacklisting 2.0
Here a recent testimony
For the past few years, my site has been in Google News. I don’t believe it generates a great amount of traffic, but being anything in Google is a good thing. I have a few writers on my site, but as the owner/senior editor, I do the bulk of the writing. That in mind, I do have 4 or 5 writers on the site and just hired an editor. I received an email today from Google News that I was being removed since they could not verify the site had multiple editors,writers and was an organization. The email started with, "We periodically review news sources, particularly following user complaints, to ensure Google News offers a high quality experience". From their review, they weren’t able to find evidence of an organization. My guess is the complaints came via one of the competiting sites. I’ve sent Google a list of names of folks that write for the site and updated the About Us to reflect the staff and organization info.
I’m guessing this is the handywork of one of my competitors. I didn’t mention this to the Google Team, but was biting my tounge. I had until October 12th to provide Google with information contrary to their findings. I’m hopeful they’ll put my site back in the loop.
If you’re in Google News, be advised to update your organizational info along with bios/contact info for your writers.
Fingers crossed.