How to Report a Website or Blog to Google
Is your website being copied? Did you see SPAM results in Google search? Did you see a blog or website that is violating the Google AdSense Terms of service (TOS)? If you are looking for the ways to contact Google in order to report any of these problems listed above then this post will help you.
In this post, I will explain several possible ways to contact Google to report a website or blog.
Google Search Results: If you want to report a website to Google, which is appearing in Google search results against a search keyword and that website is having serios problems such as Hidden text or links, Misleading or repeated words, Page does not match Google's description, Cloaked page, Deceptive redirects, Doorway pages, Duplicate site or pages or any other problem. You have two ways to report such website to Google.
- Authenticated Form in Google Webmaster. It requires Google account. You need to login into Google webmaster in order to report for a blog or website.
- unauthenticated form. You don't require Google account. You can report a website to Google.
Copyright violation: As I wrote earlier, if someone is stealing your copyright contents, you can always submit notice to Google to remove that site from their search index. Such complaint comes under Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You can read here more about how to file a DCMA complaint against a website.
SPAM Blog Reporting to Blogger: If you want to report a SPAM blog to Google, You can report it from http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&contact_type=Spam. You need to enter the SPAM blog URL as shown in the image below.
You can also report SPAM blog with the help of Blogger navigation bar with every Blogger blog. See the image below to know how to report SPAM blog. Many bloggers hide this default navigation bar. For such blogs, earlier method of reporting can be used.
Google AdSense Policy Violation: If you notice a website or blog which is violating the Google TOS. You can always report to Google AdSense team. There are two ways to achieve that.
- Fill Policy Violation contact form.
- Ads by Google link in Google ads. Process explained below.
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