Sussie, a few closing points:
- We have written about sneaky redirects in our webmaster guidelines for years. The specific part is “Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.” We make our webmaster guidelines available in over 10 different languages, and the guidelines also discuss doorway pages.
- I’ve specifically talked about using javascript pages to whisk users away from doorway pages in the past, e.g.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-sneaky-javascript/
so your webshop should have known that their pages under Shop-SEO.asp with constructed JavaScript such as
var d1=”win”, d2=”dow.”, d3=”loca”, d4=”tion.”, d5=”replace”, d6=”(’http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.dk/shop/default.asp?ReferrerStr=&SetLng=26′)”;
var i,strurl=””;
for(i=1;i<=6;i++)
{
strurl += eval(”d”+i);
}
eval(strurl);
was over the line.
- Ultimately, you are responsible for your own site. If a piece of shopping cart code put loads of white text on a white background, you are still responsible for your site. In fact, we’ve taken action on cases like that in the past.
- Nonetheless, people at Google want high-quality sites to do well. Your site has removed the JavaScript redirection, which would help in a reinclusion request.

Finally, I want this to be completely clear: any name-calling in my comments is not welcome and neither is any kind of personal attack. I want everyone to feel welcome to leave constructive comments here, and negative comments make the site less collegial and less productive. Sussie, I believe that I’ve deleted any purely negative comments, but feel free to post to the Google Group if there are remaining comments that you consider untrue.

Okay, I’m going to lock this discussion now..

Name calling aside (although Arrogant Matt Cutts is something that will stick in my mind for a long time), why does somebody who screams about their lost SERPs rate a second look? Is that what it takes to get noticed by Google? If I rant and rave on every blog/forum on the planet, will you move my sites into spot #1? I’m a nice person, and my clients are nice people too. So, I think you should give all of us nice people a FREE ride and push all of those other dirtbags down!

Let’s make a patent claim! If you’re nice – you get the #1 spot. If you’re a dirtbag – you get pushed down with the rest of the scum. We could even patent “ScumRank” as the new paradigm.

Sorry, Matt, I know that I’m not a “regular” here, but this is so absurd! I think you are getting the wrong end of the stick here, and I just had to add my 2 cents…

I hope you resolve your differences with Google in peaceful friendly way, because I can’t see any reason for not doing so. Allow me to explain.

I read your posts here on Matt’s blog and on your webshop provider forum:

http://www.dandomain.dk/support/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=697
http://www.dandomain.dk/support/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=699

As you might have noticed, its the “system” of your Webshop provider which isn’t in accordance with Google Webmasters Guidelines, not your furniture webshop. I understand that they intend to come up with a better system sometime next year.

Until then, you have the choice of either move your shop to another Webshop provider that offer a system which meets Google Webmaster Guidelines, or just stay with your present Webshop provider and accept the current situation.

And as you wrote correctly on your Webshop provider forum, you aren’t getting the support you deserve from your Webshop provider. In fact its them who should resolve the current issue with Google, not you.

Furthermore, with all due respect to your “SEO Specialist”, I doubt that he is going to resolve your shop problem through robots.txt . Even if he succeed to get few of your shop front pages indexed, you shall still left with a whole shop that can’t be indexed as it is now. Btw, the sandbox isn’t a penalty from Google side. Its just a theory.

Please consider moving your shop to another Webshop provider at least until your current Webshop provider comes up with a search engine friendly system. You will have peace and energy to focus on your business that way. And your new Webshop might rank well as a white hat site on google.dk, who knows

Good luck!

You need to make a 301 redirect from root to /shop/default.asp and then unmark all fields under “Søgemaskiner” in konfiguration. Write me at mf@refocus.dk for more help

After following this thread here and elsewhere for some days now I am amazed at your patience. If this was my blog I would have blocked Sussie many, many days ago.

For someone whose site is/was using dodgy SEO techniques I am amazed at her persistence – it’s your responsibility Sussie, it’s your site after all!

If you think some of us are wound too tight, you haven’t been elsewhere before. LOL This thread is extremely mild stuff, but very good stuff.

As Adam said; we may repeat stuff, but it’s repeated over and over because people don’t seem to get it the third or fourth or twelth time it is said. Maybe if it’s repeated enough times, some stuff just may sink in…… maybe.

Oh sure, that’s just great, just feel free to go ahead and screw us poor webmasters every leap year! I demand Larry and Sergey give me their cell phone numbers in case I need them on 2/29/08 if Matt’s not going to step up to the plate and be available.

Matt, Please make my sites #1 for every word on them until then. Thanks for your understanding.