Google
Updates Webmaster Malware Reviews
By David A. Utter
Google and StopBadware.org have been
providing a service to users of the
search engine by warning of links to
potentially dangerous sites. Such warnings
may be news to webmasters of those sites,
as they may not realize they have been
compromised.
Google improved upon its communication
with those webmasters, as noted in an
update to the Google Webmaster Central
blog. The process for removing malware
warnings from a cleaned-up site should
be quicker now.
After reviewing Webmaster Tools for
URLs Google considers dangerous, the
webmaster can make changes and request
a malware review from Google. If it
clears the review, malware messages
should be removed within 24 hours, generally.
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