Matt Cutts: bmw.de removed from the Google index

Marina Zaliznyak Feb 8, 2006

On January 11th, Matt Cutts warned us about Google’s upcoming efforts to clean up it’s indices of Spam on an international level. Can’t say there was no warning.

On February 4th, it happened and it happened BIG. According to Matt Cutts, of Google, the bmw.de website has been removed from the Google index for a number of tactics that violate the webmaster quality guidelines.

Take a look yourself:

Certainly many smaller players have been removed and have gone unnoticed. With the BMW website, the news is definitely making the headlines and hopefully setting a precedent.

Since February 4th, when Cutts wrote about it, the website is back in the index, but certainly with entirely different rankings for keywords such as “Gebrauchtwagen” and “Neuwagen.”

Sources:

Matt Cutts
El Mundo

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2 Responses to “Matt Cutts: bmw.de removed from the Google index”

Ebina Cho Says:
February 9th, 2006 at 12:57 am
On Tuesday evening, Cutts wrote in his blog that BMW.de had been re-included in the Google database after removing the redirect pages. According to BMW, they created the doorway because some items on its site were created using Java and so those items weren’t being detected by search engines.

On Tuesday evening, Cutts wrote in his blog that BMW.de had been re-included in the Google database after removing the redirect pages. According to BMW, they created the doorway because some items on its site were created using Java and so those items weren’t being detected by search engines.

As a BMW fan, I wish google had notified BMW that they found its practices offensive before removing the site and announcing that to the public. If Eric Schmidt was BMW CEO, he Would prevent selling BMW cars to google staff(Remember google schmidt not to talk with new york times last summer? :).
Ebina Cho Says:
February 9th, 2006 at 1:09 am
oops! Can’t edit my posting.. somebody please let me know how to!

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