Comments on: GoCompare Banned from Google

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:30:08 +0000

I wish someone would shoot that make believe opera singer who murders that go compare advert, he puts me and others right off the company.

By: George

George — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:33:39 +0000

Gocompare are indeed now on page 2. But this article was written on Jan 29th so it’s probably acceptable it’s a little out of date.
Perhaps we should close comments on old posts?

By: Roy Bohan

Roy Bohan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:38:07 +0000

Go compare on page two google for car insurance?

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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:28:53 +0000

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By: Louis Jones

Louis Jones — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:36:58 +0000

GoCompare Penalised by Google… Again

I haven’t had much of a look into this but I dont think this will be a full 3 month penalization like back in Jan. Will dig a bit deeper and have a good look at the backlink history and review in detail. Yet I think it is due to incorrect transition of the new site.

By: David

David — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:34:21 +0000

A lot of these price comparison sites have little real content on them and are up there via links, it does not surprise me that most are paid for!

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:05:06 +0000

Stumbled across this blog and thought I’d check google.co.uk results and see GoCompare on page 2. A pretty big climb I suppose since last post on this subject (March)

What’s this about a ban?

And this post http://www.insiders-view.co.uk/moneysupermarket-banned-by-google-for-spamming/0045

Me no see no bans on either of these, or moneyexpert, asdafinance, etc. ad nauseum!

Here’s my “idiotic” guess, people complain to G, G manually checks the site(s), G thinks “hey, they seem reputable” (as opposed to the cheap/spammy looking sites of the wannabes) and lets them slide.

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:43:25 +0000

@Andy,
Defintely not. There’s a fairly complicated algorithm at work based on many factors including IMHO:
- History of spam reports
- Whether the site has been flagged as suspicious
- How many other reports have been filed against that domain
- Whether the site contains adult content
- [Insert variable here]

Only then is a site reviewed for the Big G Handjob. This can take between 2 days and infinity. Unless you can have a word with Matt or GoogleGuy.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:47:28 +0000

Does it take just one proven report to google to get blacklisted (-50 results)?