Google spam policy and how to resolve

I have a listing that has been flagged as spam on google. I’ve read the other questions here on that but they don’t seem to apply to my listing. Could someone please help me with what they are talking about? This is the [URL removed]

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I’ve always tried to be very careful with my listings and provide plenty of data. What am I doing wrong?

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2 Answer

This is an official Bonanza response.

Hi there,

Generally, items get flagged as spam by Google if they have words with all capital letters, or if they use unnecessary words like free, new, or used. It’s important to make sure you listing titles and listings descriptions do not include that type of formatting or word usage. Anything that comes across as promotional material and is not a way to describe the product is frowned upon by them.

Once you update your titles, you’ll want to go to Selling > Add or Edit Items and click the “Update Booth” button. Just a heads up, it can take Google a little while to update your Google Shopping Feed.

Hope this helps!

answered Translation missing: es.datetime.distance_in_words.almost_x_years ago

Try re-doing the title and updating the booth….

Sometimes things get flagged for a keyword or symbol which might be interpreted as spam…my guess is the use of hyphen & may seem like putting too many discripters and/or symbols in the title…

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ccmom
Reputation: 12648
See ccmom's booth

2 Comment

Treasure_By_Demand says: September 07, 2017

Thank you very much I’ll try that.

lostlizard says: September 13, 2017

I am having the same spam warning with a book title written as [URL removed] Control Mechanisms in Craniofacial [URL removed] Proceedings HC Univ Michigan 1974 That’s just the title published by Univ of Michigan in hardcover. Not sure what they find spammy—maybe the U of M????

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