New landing pages for websites with warnings
Posted by Erica George
StopBadware’s most important mission is helping to educate internet users about badware threats and how to protect themselves. One of the biggest ways users tend to find us is through our partnership with Google, and the warning pages Google places in its search results for websites that it has flagged as dangerous. Today, we’re rolling out a new and improved information page for users landing on our site after viewing a Google warning.
The new landing pages are an easy one-stop-shop for all the key links related to the warnings, organized in two easy boxes, one especially for website owners and the other for ordinary users. The pages also include a summary of any review history for the site, if the site has ever requested a review from StopBadware, and a link to the complete review history page.
The new pages use colored icons to help make a site’s warning and testing status clear. A site that is being reported as bad by a StopBadware partner gets a yellow icon, and a site that’s been confirmed as bad through our own testing at StopBadware gets a red icon. For sites no partner is currently reporting as bad, a colorless icon means simply that we haven’t been told anything current about a site, not that the site is necessarily safe.
We hope search users and webmasters alike will find these new landing pages helpful and informative. If you have suggestions or feedback, please let us know!