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I would like to ask others here whether or not you report spam by others and if so, what sort of threshold do you apply?
Nobody likes a tattle tale, but when I see my clients' competitors using clearly spammy techniques, my policy is to take action. If it's map spam - and I see a LOT of that - I report it via mapmaker or google maps. If it's other spam I will report it if it's blatant and egregious in scope. For example, I just filed a google spam report regarding the client of a competitor who has a "cities served" list page with sixty links to city doorway pages that are all identical except for the city name.
I just want my clients to have a level playing field, and I want them to be as compliant with Google's quality guidelines as possible - not on moral grounds, but rather, for the sake of not taking unreasonable risks that might expose them to manual or algorithmic penalties.
What do you do?
Nobody likes a tattle tale, but when I see my clients' competitors using clearly spammy techniques, my policy is to take action. If it's map spam - and I see a LOT of that - I report it via mapmaker or google maps. If it's other spam I will report it if it's blatant and egregious in scope. For example, I just filed a google spam report regarding the client of a competitor who has a "cities served" list page with sixty links to city doorway pages that are all identical except for the city name.
I just want my clients to have a level playing field, and I want them to be as compliant with Google's quality guidelines as possible - not on moral grounds, but rather, for the sake of not taking unreasonable risks that might expose them to manual or algorithmic penalties.
What do you do?
