bmw.de banned in GOogle

[ovi]

The German websites of car maker BMW (bmw.de) have been kicked out of the Google index. BMW.de at this time has a PageRank of 0. A search for BMW Germany, which only days ago yielded BMW.de as a top result, now doesn’t show any sign of BMW.de at all. Instead, BMW.com – BMW’s international site – is on top for this search.

The reason for the ban is likely to be that the BMW websites have been caught employing a technique used by black-hat search engine optimizers: doorway pages. German and international bloggers last week were quick to spread the news.

 

[temi]

Ovi,
This reminds me of msn.co.uk homepage too, it used to be PR7 now its PR2, I wonder what is going on there

 

[ovi]

Hello

Hmmm...I am wondering what company BMW has used or what webmaster to SEO their site, for sure was a morron. I home BMW has sued them

Ovi

 

[OldWelshGuy]

I know their name, so do many others. No one is risking saying it though LOL.

They were in fact banned for using cloaking with javascript redirects based on IP addresses

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Oh, and forgot to say that Ricoh is next, together with a European arm of an American car manufacturer

 

[temi]

LOL, looks like big names pick idiots to market their websites reminds me of an link exchange request I received asking me to link to a big name dating site in exchange for a link back on a PR0 link farm

 

[worldbusinessforsale.com]

Bmw

Bmw is back in google!

worldbusinessforsale.com

 

[clau]

BMW is too big to be banned for long times. This was a good publicity for both companies though.

Claudiu

 

[OldWelshGuy]

BMW were back in 3 days afterwards. To get back in they had to.
1. remove all the spam from their site
2. file a re-inclusion request
3. Name the company who put the spam there.

 

[ovi]

Hehe

Very nice, I am happy that this has finish well for BMW. Anyway I am happy that the comapny who put the spam has been denounce to Google.

Ovi