"Webspam" refers to pages that try to trick Google into ranking them highly. Before you file a webspam report, see if the page might have a different problem:
| Paid links | Copyright and other legal issues |
| This page is selling or buying links. | This page should be removed under applicable law. |
| Objectionable content | Personal/private |
| This page is inappropriate. | This page discloses private information. |
| Malware | Phishing |
| This page is infected. | This page is trying to get sensitive information. |
| Other Google products | Rich Snippets |
| This page abuses Google products other than Search, e.g., AdSense, Google Maps, etc. | This page doesn't comply with Google's rich snippets guidelines. |
| Something else is wrong | |
| This page has other, non-webspam related issues. |
| This page is really webspam. |