Official Google answer: How can a website compete for high rankings using only white hat techniques in industries that are dominated by spammers if Google takes months to react to spam reports and by that time new black hat sites are ranking?

Question:

How can a website compete for high rankings using only white hat techniques in industries that are dominated by spammers if Google takes months to react to spam reports and by that time new black hat sites are ranking?

Google's Matt Cutts answers:

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Question	Views
Are different sites treated differently?	384
Does Google see automatically generated content as a bad thing (i.e. spam)?	713
My SEO client is using shared hosting for one of their websites. When I checked other sites hosted on their server, I found some spammy websites. Will that affect ranking of my client's website?	580
What impact do site load times have on Google rankings?	553
When will Google create a software similar to Web Position so that SEOs, spam fighters and regular webmasters can check rankings etc. without violating the guidelines?	567
In regards to the new canonicalization tag, does it make sense for large corporations to consider placing that tag on every page due to marketing tracking codes and large levels of duplicate URLs like faceted pages and load balancing servers?	568
Any updates on "site hierarchies display in search results" (aka breadcrumbs)?	468
How accurate is Google's backlink-check (link:...)?	674
Since we're hearing a lot of talk about the implications of Page Speed, I wonder if Google still cares as much about relevancy?	587
When do you reckon Rich Snippets will be made widely available?	395

Question

Views

Are different sites treated differently?

384

Does Google see automatically generated content as a bad thing (i.e. spam)?

713

My SEO client is using shared hosting for one of their websites. When I checked other sites hosted on their server, I found some spammy websites. Will that affect ranking of my client's website?

580

What impact do site load times have on Google rankings?

553

When will Google create a software similar to Web Position so that SEOs, spam fighters and regular webmasters can check rankings etc. without violating the guidelines?

567