I had a legit blog at blogger flagged as spam for reasons still not disclosed last year.

Yeah, blogger got some heat and probably decided to risk flagging a lot of legit blogs just to get some of the more sophisticated spam out of their index.

This thought worries me a lot. This goes also hand in hand with the increased fear by webmasters to do something wrong and lose in the search engine game because of that.

I am not talking about manipulations with the intend to trick search engines, but normal website development and content creation. It is easier nowadays to see your site disappear from the search results without doing anything bad.

This trend continues with how you write the content itself if you use contextual advertising to monetize your site. The wrong word in the text and before you know it turn the income generating Ads to unpaid PSA messages.

The Search Engines did a good job that webmasters have them more and more in mind when designing a website rather than the user.

Much more than they did and had to in the past.

Sure hope whatever they did clears up this little snafu!

Hi there,

Thanks for pointing this out — we appreciate it. Turns out that your site was identified as spam by our software, when it clearly shouldn’t have been. This has been fixed, and your site should be picked up in our next crawl.

Reading the comments I realize there are others that might be wondering why their site isn’t in our index — and there’s no one universal answer.

If they suspect they’ve been blacklisted inappropriately they can e-mail
webspam@microsoft.com for re-inclusion.

Thanks again for the heads-up,

Aaswath
Program Manager, Live Search

Thank you. Could you please update me and our readers as to when the problem is fixed and what the issue is.

Thanks, Loren