The important stuff is all after that part, and that’s the part that Google eliminates from its reports. The email notification you receive provides some clue as to the offending URL, while the notice in the Search Console gives you NO worthwhile info.įor my purposes, this did not help at all, because every click-tracked link in the history of GMass starts with /x/c. If you received an email notification about the blacklisting, that will have a portion of the URL. In the Search Console you might see this: Unfortunately for you, Google won’t tell you. Despite claims of transparency, it’s anything but.Īs soon as your domain has been listed, you will probably want to know the URL that caused the issue. Some nonsense associated with the Safe Browsing Program 1. You’ll see below that this discovery led me to change the structure of a click-tracked link. Using the public Safe Browsing lookup tool, which is different from the private tool everyone has in their Search Console, I found that plugging in just gave this result, indicating that some URLs were affected and others weren’t: Just “” indicates that SOME pages are unsafe.īut if I plugged in our original click tracking structure, /x/c, then the issue was clear that all /x/c links were blacklisted Using our old click-tracking link structure shows that all URL redirects using are unsafe.Ĭurious, though, I wondered what would happen if I changed the URL slightly, so I tried /x/d and found that those URLs came back clean Slightly altering the link structure makes the link safe again. In our case, when we got the notice that was listed, I wanted to isolate which URLs were affected. Obviously not a good look for an email marketer. If people reply to you, the reply will still have the original email at the bottom, with the link that you sent, and Google will flag the reply to you as a potential scam too.Your past campaigns are affected too, if someone pulls up one of those old emails and clicks a link.If you do manage to send an email with a blacklisted link, and that link is clicked, you’ll scare the bejesus out of them with the red screen of death.Your Gmail account becomes severely limited and unable able to send any substantial volume of emails.What happens to your email campaigns when you send a URL that’s on this list? Gmail makes you feel like the devil reincarnate. The effect of being listed goes beyond just the web In this case, the URL led to the red screen of death, as did our click-tracked links that redirected to this URL. Notice that the URL behind the link is highlighted at the bottom. In slogging through our logs we found that a Netflix phisher had managed to send 200 emails through GMass on Sunday, February 17. That makes it so that any providing click-tracking services, including URL shorteners and email marketing service providers, have to be extra cautious. Not only does Google list actual phishing sites, but any sites that re-direct to them as well. ![]() Ouch! Upon investigating, we found that the tracking domains they use in their email campaigns had ended up on the Google’s Safe Browsing blacklist, and when people clicked links in their campaigns, they ended up on this scary bright red Google warning page.
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