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Published: Apr 30, 2009 - 05:11 am
Story Found By: Harith 1512 Days ago
Category: SEM
A previous text on the Bio of the account informed Tweeps that they are welcome to report spam via DMs.
I’m glad to see Google Webspam Team following the digital developments and making itself available on Twitter for webmasters, publishers and SEO/SEM folks.
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The jury is still out for me as to how good this really is. I’m curious (Matt, if you’re listening...), will this only be used as a conduit for us to report spam or will the team actually push out relevant updates to the ever-present fight against spam?
As far as I can tell Google is just claiming that account to protect its brand.See http://twitter.com/mattcutts/statuses/1649591707
@HalfdeckBut you forgot to mention the most important part of Matt’s statement "Still pondering" :-)
"Still pondering" as usual is just Matt’s way of keeping a back door open. :) Maintaining that account I’m guessing would require - A googler to tweet regularly, esp. about spam-related things - a topic Google doesn’t really want to talk too much about, so the tweeter would run out of things to say quickly.- monitoring of DMs that aren’t verified i.e. lower quality than reports submitted under Webmaster Tools. Also I imagine Google prefers spam reports consolidated into one channel instead of managing spam reports submitted in 3+ places- monitoring of @reply streams since ignoring them completely would make Google look bad.Spam reports in webmaster tools is already working pretty well. There’s also already plenty of communication from Google re: Google-compliant web practices. So I don’t see any real need for Google to invest any energy into this twitter account.
@HalfdeckFrom the three point you mentioned as argument against reporting spam via DMs on Twitter, I can conclude that you are underestimating the capacity of Google and its WebSpam Team. The main issue here is; would Google webSpam Team be capable to adopt to the new era of social media, or just keep doing the same thing as before ignoring major developements and trends on the net.In fact @mattcutts has very simple easy decision to make. Should Matte expand the operation of his team to include social media as Twitter, or would he prefer to wait for his successor to do that later. A very easy decision to make, IMO :-)
"just keep doing the same thing as before"Why fix it when it ain’t broke? :) Is Google capable? Sure. Should Google waste time and resources just to "adopt to the new era of social media?" Doesn’t sound too practical to me.
My friend, @Halfdeck"Why fix it when it ain’t broke?"Thats the traditional motto for people afraid of developments and changes. We wouldn’t have an iPhone today if we applied your motto to the classic phone :-)Google WebSpam Team need to accept and adopt to changes.
Here are 19 Official Google Twiter profiles - http://followlists.com/acn
The iPhone adds value. A Google twitter account is redundant :) See there’s a difference.
FYI, here’s a group account that has all kinds of Googlers, not just webspam team: http://twitter.com/googlers
Thats one twitter account you DON’T want following you!
Harith, Halfdeck makes some good points. There’s some logistical aspects (the account would need to autofollow or else you couldn’t DM private reports), which opens up issues when e.g. auto-following was recently restricted. Plus it invites a conversation (which can be time/cycle-consuming) compared to the web form. And there’s always the question of taking on additional channels that are more 1:1 vs. efforts that help lots of people (e.g. videos). So we’re still thinking about it.
Hey MattThanks for feedback and your time. Very kind of you.I understand and trust your judgement in this issue and glad to hear you are still thinking about it :-)
hey thanx