Google should not re-evaluate their policy. They’re aware of free sites etc. And if a webmaster uses a bad neighborhood that isn’t easily identifiable as belonging to several people, then that’s not due diligence on their part.

And as for the Google redirect. It’s irritating, but I was more surprised it didn’t happen before.

http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39151741,00.htm

* * * * Also it is important to be aware that a domain could belong to a Hosting company with many different Webmasters forced to use a sub-directory for their hosting (e.g low cost and free hosting) * * *

Google should re-evaluate its policy - and go the extra distance of being fair - you are dealing with PEOPLE - policies have to reflect HUMANENESS

BTW:

Read this about Google itself using Javascript redirects - are other guanteed that using this tactic - even for the same reasons as Google - would NOT get them banned??

http://mboffin.com/post.aspx?id=1830

And for the record, Google’s policy is to blacklist the entire domain, except in the case of say Geocities, where there are a few (usually VERY few) spammy sites, and the rest are legit.

But one domain, with pages belonging to the same person. Instant ban if one page is spamvertized and caught by someone who reports to Google.

Why should an example be set - why should ONE person be used as a symbol - the ultimate answer would be to improve technology to filter-out
any positive effects from so-called referrer SPAM.

Also, hopefully - the ENTIRE domain does not suffer - just the referrer page - because that DEPRIVES searchers of information - in other words: the entire INFORMATION should no suffer because of tactics.

Unfortunately - some link exhanges, or pages - where CGI redirects are used could be forced “Algorithmically” under that category

Any ideas? I’ve grown very weary of blocking the ongoing IPAs from the many referrers (the worst repeat offenders now blocked but the hammering continues now from as much as 300-400 other IPAs daily).