Somewhere around 2007, because the operating system of that period was giving away serious holes, Google took an important step for its search engine. Its first move was a warning that appeared right under the site title for sites carrying a virus: “This site may harm your computer”. Since the system had not settled down yet, we can say it showed up on a good many sites. That first primitive virus warning system even fired on some simple pieces of JavaScript.
In the periods that followed, it worked on the warning system. In the early days Google had no direct or indirect effect on ranking through it. But over the time that has passed, the renewed virus business in Google began to affect searches indirectly and even directly. We can look at that effect in a few parts.
Content That Does Not Match the Searched Term
Google has come a long way in watching what users do. It pulled the site title and the meta description and presented those two pieces of data to its users in the search results. If a site was picking up a virus warning, it stopped being clicked in the search results. Take a search for XYZ123, where a site named X2001 comes up. If it has picked up a virus warning, people will not visit that site. That situation creates a mismatch between the searched term and the site, and it will push the site a good way back in the search results. This one stands as the indirect effect.
The direct effect is that Google, wanting its own page to look nicer and better cared for, does not want a warning spoiling that template. For that reason you cannot really say it is keen to bring a site that has picked up a virus warning into the first results. It also does work of the kind that pins a site back at the top of page 2 or the top of page 5.
Does Your Site Actually Have a Problem Like This?
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=turksem.com
Thanks to the link above it is possible to find this out. If it says a suspicious situation was encountered, that may be one of the reasons your company's site is not moving forward. The way out is to clean that software, and any intermediary code there may be, off your site.
