For the fifth time this year, Blog has gotten a message from Google, the owner of this free blogging platform, that two of my postings has been flagged for review by Google for violating their Community Guidelines. In these instances, Google removes the posting. So if you click on a tab at the top of Blog or the CH Stitch Guides blog and there is nothing there, that's one of the flagged postings.
The two removals this morning were both for malware or viruses in some of the links. Since there is no way I can check thousands of reference links for issues, all I can do is appeal the removal. This morning the Monthly Clubs and the list of Stitch Guide Writers' contact information were removed. Since I found the issue and appealed both removals, both articles have been restored.
Since this is happening so frequently, I assume Google is now scanning blogs looking for malware or viruses or a troll is flagging my blogs to cause trouble. All the postings that have been involved have been reference ones at the top of the two needlepoint blogs I maintain. After I appeal the ruling, they have been restored which makes me think a troll is trying to cause issues. Still, you should maintain anti-virus and anti-malware software on your devices as there could still be a problem lurking that I cannot detect.
So far, all the flagged articles have been restored after I appeal, but I can see a time coming when Google will make it impossible for me to continue to maintain reference articles with links to many websites, videos and tutorials. Stay tuned.
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