Google blacklists JobDestruction.info and ZaZona.com

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:15 AM

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Google classified my website as potentially harmful to your computer. To see
what I mean, do either of these two searches:

This one is for JobDestruction.info
http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=+site%3Awww.jobdestruction.info&btnG=Search

This one is for ZaZona.com
http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=+site%3Awww.zazona.com&btnG=Search

JobDestruction.info and ZaZona.com point to the same website domain, so it's
not surprising that Google treats them the same way. Unfortunately they are
treating the domain as if it was a malicious malware or spyware site. To see
what I mean, click on one of those two searches and you will find links to the
website that have a warning that says: "This site may harm your computer."

It gets worse!

If you actually click on the link you get a second warning by going to a
webpage that says: "Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!"
It gives people no way to actually go to the JobDestruction website because it
only allows you to go back to the original search page.

You might not see this problem if you are using another search engine. This is
a case of Google imposing itself on the world wide web.

These links still work because so far Google can't control them:

http://www.zazona.com/
http://www.jobdestruction.info/

FOLKS -- MY WEBSITE WON'T HARM YOUR COMPUTER, JUST DON'T USE GOOGLE TO GET
THERE!

Let me explain to you why I can say the website is safe. There are two
important reasons:

1) The website is hosted by a professional shared hosting service. They handle
thousands of accounts. I have complete confidence that they wouldn't allow
malware to be put on any of their hosted websites. They are professionals that
fight this kind of thing everyday. I asked them to scan my website and all
tests for malware turned up negative.

2) Most of the pages are standard HTML with a few ASP scripts. It's mundane
stuff mostly developed with Microsoft Frontpage. There is nothing tricky or
even cutting edge about the website that would allow malware scripts to hide.

These web pages have some information about this problem. As you can see, many
webmasters are having similar problems. The first article explains that some
websites are getting on Google's bad side for having IFrames.
ZaZona.com has no such thing. The frustrating thing is that there are many
ways to get on Google's list, and it seems up to each webmaster to get back in
their good graces.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/security.google
What's an IFrame attack and why should I care?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000859.html
This Site May Harm Your Computer

I'm not sure how long this situation has persisted on ZaZona.com, but five
days ago I formerly asked Google to take me off their malware list. They say
that it takes about 24 hours to respond but so far they haven't even replied
to my email. I also added some blank pages that they give in their toolbox to
solve this problem. I hope at some point Google will clear this up, but
believe me, I don't enjoy spending the time they require of me to research and
solve the problem.

Unfortunately the time I spend trying to solve this problem isn't the only
issue because 80% of the traffic to my website comes from Google searches.
Traffic to the website is trending downward very quickly -- it is 1/3 what it
was in the month of March. Unfortunately other search engines delist sites
that get the red flag from the Google police, which means that people who use
Ask or many others that use the Google database will never find my website
because they will delist it. I was hoping to put some commercial ads back on
the site so that I could earn some much needed funds, but that won't be
possible as long as Google blacklists the site.

All of this raises the question about why this blacklisting happened in the
first place. At this point I don't know if this is just a case of Google
incompetance, or something more evil like deliberate sabotage.

Even if this problem is solved, it may take a very long time to recover from
the damage. You can bet Google will do nothing to restore my web traffic to
what it was before the delisting.

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