The reason you may want to report black hat SEO is either one of two reasons. We will discuss how to report these two different cases.
Virus, Hack, or Negative SEO
If your website has been attacked through a malicious virus, hack, or negative SEO campaign of spammy links, request a malware review after you’ve removed the malicious code. If your website is the target of a negative SEO campaign of spammy links, use the Disavow Links Tool in Google Webmaster Tools after you’ve attempted to contact the webmasters to have them removed.
Spam Results
You may see spammy web results on a competitive keyword your website is ranking on from time to time. You may file a webspam report through Google Webmaster Tools with discretion. SPAM doesn’t mean search positions that appear before yours and falsely reporting web spam can be considered black hat SEO.
Hopefully, this gave you a clearer insight in how to report black hat SEO in order to make the internet a better place.
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It’s important to get rid of viruses, malware, and spam because you don’t want your site users to also get infected. You also don’t want it because your users will recognize the site is harmful which will give your site a bad reputation. That user would be very cautious when deciding to click back into the same website. These tools you wrote about would be very helpful in getting rid of black hat SEO.
When going on the internet, making sure you have protection from viruses or malware is very important to have. Protecting the customer and preventing that idea from every happening in the first place is key. Without it, you will make a bad name for yourself and a bad reputation of the company due to customers thinking that your website is dangerous.
I feel like viruses have become so rampant in dark corners of the web that trying to avoid them can become difficult when you’re working with external hardware. I like how you added spam results though, as spam can often be shoved to the side when we’re dealing with harmful malware. Spam is so normalized in our email folders I think most people brush it to the side but it is still just as important