Search Engines Contact List Options

[Randy]

Been meaning to do this one for awhile and finally got around to it. The goal being to put together a list of the different ways to contact the search engines for different things when the need arised, and have it all in one place so it's easy for people to find and use.

So with no further ado here's what I currently have on file...

Ask/Teoma

• Webmaster Contact Form
• Webmaster Guidelines/Help (really more of a spider/robots help section)
• Submit Your Site (See Next Entry)
• Submit a Sitemap (Short version, use http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap= followed by the url address of your sitemap)
• Report Spam
• Report Copyright Infringement

-- Blogs --

• Ask Jeeves Blog

Google

• Webmaster Contact Form
  Notes:
  1. If you suspect a 302 Hijack situation use the above with a subject line of "canonicalpage" so that so that your request is routed to the correct working group.
  2. If you need to file a reinclusion request because your domain has been removed due to use of shady tactics, use the above form after cleaning up everything. Use a subject of "Reinclusion Request" so that it is routed correctly. Google will want to know two things. 1. That the spam/shady tactics are all gone or have been fixed; and 2. That it's not going to happen again. You'll need to supply details if you want back in. Including whatever corrective actions you have taken to make sure it never happens again.
• Webmaster Guidelines/Help
• Submit Your Site
• Add your site/business to Google Local (Requires a free account)
• Submit Sitemap (Requires a free account)
• Report Spam
• Report Copyright Infringement
• Remove a URL from the Index (Requires a free account)
• Google Keyword Tool for conducting keyword research.
• Google Trends where Google displays graphis to show year to year and quarter-by-quarter search volume data.
• Google Webmaster Tools - Can give you all sorts of information to help you sort out spider crawl problems, among other things. Note: You do not need to submit an xml sitemap to get useful info. Simply verify your site is actually your site.
• File a Reinclusion Request
• If you get a warning in the SERP pages that your site contains malware and may be dangerous for people to visit, run your domain through Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic tool. To do so, use a url address like
  CODE
  http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/
  replacing YOURDOMAIN with your actual domain. The resulting page will give you more details about malware Google has detected during its spider runs.

-- Blogs --

• Official Google Blog
• Matt Cutts Blog

MSN

• Webmaster Contact Form
• Webmaster Guidelines/Help and here
• Submit Your Site
• Submit a Sitemap: (none currently)
• Report Spam
• Search Feedback (may also be used to report spam)
• Report Copyright Infringement

-- Blogs --

• MSN Search Blog
• MSN Search Wiki

Yahoo!

• Webmaster Contact Form
• Webmaster Guidelines/Help
• Submit Your Site
• Submit Sitemap
• Report Spam
• Email Addresses: reportsearchspam@yahoo-inc.com (to report spam - may also be used to file a reinclusion request, though they'll often want you to join their Site Match program to get your site reviewed)
• Reinclusion Request Form
  Yst-feedback@yahoo-inc.com (general webmaster contact address)
• Report Copyright Infringement

-- Blogs --

• Yahoo! Search Blog
• Jeremy Zawodny's Blog

Some of the above change from time to time. Engines also provide new ways to contact them for various specific issues now and then. If you have any corrections or additions please PM us the data so that we can check it out and keep the list up to date.

This post has been edited by Randy: Jun 18 2009, 07:11 AM