Google Blacklists BMW

Matthew · Post #1 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 10:03 AM

I read on the news earlier HERE, that Google has blacklisted BMW's German website...

"BMW's German website, which is heavily reliant on javascript code unsearchable by Google, used text-heavy pages liberally sprinkled with key words to attract the attention of Google's indexing system. However, once a user clicked on the link displayed in Google's results window, they were redirected to a regular BMW Germany page, which contained far fewer of the key words"

I say... OOPS to BMW. Someone will be in trouble I bet

GordyMac · Post #2 (**permalink**) 02-07-2006, 10:52 AM

Yeah I woke up this morning and turned on CNN and she was saying they put them ranked 0 so they won't come up or something.

Matthew · Post #3 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 04:57 AM

I wonder if there is a way for them to build things back up or have they been blacklisted forever? I am not sure if it's just a reset back to zero and they have to build back up from scratch.

Would be interesting to find out.

BlackStorm · Post #4 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 07:44 AM

I'm sure they will be able to get indexed again but they will probably start fro mscratch, just like a new domain.

I'm sure once they can get indexed again they will shoot up though, they have lots of links and content so I don't think it will be a problem, maybe less keywords next time though

Matthew · Post #5 (**permalink**) 02-08-2006, 07:46 AM

I did a search on BMW Germany on Google and see they are still the top of the list. I wonder if the ban has been lifted, or if it just doesnt effect typing in BMW Germany or something :s Not sure how it all works there.

Anjay · Post #6 (**permalink**) 02-18-2006, 04:39 AM

If you type BMW on Google (DE) or BMW Germany on Google (UK), then the German BMW (www.bmw.de) comes up. I don't think it's so much that Google blacklisted BMW, rather that their search index was reset meaning they would have to build themselves up again -- which doesn't take that long, especially if you're as big as BMW.

Matthew · Post #7 (**permalink**) 02-18-2006, 05:07 AM

Yep... I bet it set them back a bit but not that much. I wonder if they had any losses over it.

Anjay · Post #8 (**permalink**) 02-18-2006, 05:51 AM

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I wonder if they had any losses over it.

I doubt it. Everyone knows BMW, and they don't need their website to appear as #1 on Google to increase sales. You'll either buy one or you won't, and if you're a company interested in using them as your company cars, then you'll contact BMW directly.