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I own a large number of domains… one of them is a fan site for Rove (Rovefeed.com)

I got an email (as the registrant) from the almighty G. Stating the following,

Dear site owner or webmaster of rovefeed.com,

While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.

The following is some example hidden text we found at http://www.rovefeed.com/:

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In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, we have temporarily removed some of your webpages from our search results. Currently pages from rovefeed.com are scheduled to be removed for at least 30 days.

We would prefer to have your pages in Google’s index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html.

When you are ready, please visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reinclusion?hl=en to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team

Good to see Google actually does kick off Spammy websites of their listings.