Carscoop is Back, and Yes, We're Ready to Move on
It has been almost four days since Google erroneously took down our website, but we're back on our digital feet, and as we told you through our FaceBook page where many of you stayed in touch with us, and for which, we thank you, we're ready to make some important changes to the way Carscoop operates.
But first things first. Naturally, you will be wondering why was Carscoop taken down for the second time in 40 days? Well, sites hosted on Google's Blogger platform are subjected to what the internet giant calls "automated classification system", which made a false positive marking our site as a spam blog. Here's Google's definition of a 'spam blog':
"Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users."
Wait a second; if Carscoop creates unique content, then why is it targeted by Google Blogger's 'robots'? Well, prepare yourself for an answer that will surprise you as much as it surprised us. This is what two Blogger Top Contributors (TCs) told Carscoop:
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