BMW Germany website back in Google

Search engine giants Google have confirmed that they have taken back the website of automotive company BMW in their search index. They had earlier banned the website from their search engine results because the developers had used misleading SEO practices as per a Blog post by Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google.

BMW’s German website was using gateway pages, filled with relevant keywords, which immediately triggered a JavaScript redirect to forward the visitor to the BMW.de homepage. Google stated that these broke their policies considering the website was showing different pages to the search engine spiders and users.

Markus Sagemann, spokesperson for BMW acknowledged this fact and somewhat criticized the company’s decision to go public with this fact. He said in a statement: “I think one should have the chance to react before this is spread publicly because the damage residing from this in terms of public opinion is something one could question.”