Google has removed BMW Germany (bmw.de) from their website. According to Matt Cutts, the page displayed to search engines was different from the page to which users where redirected to when they clicked on it from a search engine.


Google has removed BMW Germany (bmw.de) from their website.

According to Matt Cutts, the page displayed to search engines was different from the page to which users were redirected to when they clicked on it from a search engine.

Matt Cutts mentioned that this is a violation of Google’s Webmaster Quality Guidelines. And the principle of “Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users.” [Source]

Ricoh.de will also be removed from the Google website.

To view the difference between BMW pages as seen by search engines and users, click here.

To view Google’s Webmaster Quality Guidelines, click here.

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