Barry SchwartzMar 10, 2025
Google expands its site reputation abuse manual actions next steps/actions documentation - you should not block that content with your robots.txt file https://www.seroundtable.com/google-expands-site-reputation-abuse-policy-39027.html via @glenngabe
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Google Expands Site Reputation Abuse Policy Manual Actions Next Steps

Google has updated its manual actions documentation around site reputation abuse, to expand on the next steps and actions you can take if you receive this manual action. Google now more clearly says

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Barry SchwartzJan 29, 2025

Google expands manual actions and enforcement of the site reputation abuse policy to the German market https://www.seroundtable.com/google-expands-site-reputation-abuse-enforcement-to-germany-38819.html via @SEO_Suedwest @LauraChiocciora @glenngabe

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Google Expands Site Reputation Abuse Enforcement To German Sites

Google has once again expanded the reach of its site reputation abuse policy, beyond the US enforcement from from May and beyond limited European regions last week - we are now seeing enforcement in t

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Barry SchwartzJan 14, 2025

Google can show pages with manual actions in the AI Overviews, despite being penalized and not showing in web search results https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-manual-action-38734.html via @lilyraynyc first and then @glenngabe

#google #googleaioverviews #googlepenalty #googlemanualaction #spam #googleseo #seo

Google Can Show Sites With Manual Actions In AI Overviews

Did you know that sites and pages with manual actions can potentially show up in the Google AI Overviews. So while the page has a search penalty and won't show up in the main Google search results, i

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Barry SchwartzJan 13, 2025

Google manual actions for News and Discover policy violations were updated a few months ago - some big updates here https://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-actions-news-discover-policy-update-38729.html

#google #googlemanualaction #googlespam #googleseo #googlenews #googlediscover

Google Manual Actions For News & Discover Policy Violations Updated

A few months ago, Google quietly updated the manual action policy violations list for News and Discover policy violations. Google removed the adult-theme and artificial freshening sections and then a

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Barry SchwartzDec 24, 2024

Google Ads to now disapprove ads that go to pages with Google manual actions https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-manual-actions-disapproval-38625.html

#googleads #ppc #google #googlemanualaction #googlepenalty #seo #ads

Google Ads Policy Disapproves Ads Pointing To Sites With Manual Actions

Google Ads updated its abusing the ad network policy to say it will disapprove ads can take "actions on ads relating that might violate Spam Policies for Google Web Search." Specifically, if an ad's d

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Barry SchwartzNov 29, 2024

Google's @johnmu on giving prior notice to a Google Search penalty (manual action vs algorithmic change???) https://www.seroundtable.com/google-prior-notice-to-search-penalties-38497.html

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Google On Giving Prior Notice To Search Penalties

Google's John Mueller said he was generally in favor to the idea of giving prior notice to receiving a manual action, but he said "it's challenging." John then explains that Google's search algorithm

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Barry SchwartzOct 23, 2024

Did Google Search penalize Fortune Recommends over the site reputation abuse policy, similar to what we saw with Forbes Advisor and others - @glenngabe has the details https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hit-fortune-recommends-38294.html

#google #seo #spam #penalty #googlemanualaction #googleseo #fortune

Did Google Hit Fortune Recommends With A Search Penalty Over Site Reputation Abuse?

Google may have hit Fortune Recommends with a search penalty, downgrading its Google search rankings. This may be related to the site reputation abuse policy, like it may have done previously to Forbe

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Barry SchwartzSep 30, 2024

Looks like Google slapped Forbes Advisor with a manual action over the site reputation abuse policy https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hit-forbes-advisor-38147.html via @glenngabe and @LarsLofgren

#google #forbes #googlespam #googleseo #seo #googlesitereputationabuse #googlemanualaction #googlepenalty

Did Google Hit Forbes Advisor With A Search Penalty Over Site Reputation Abuse?

Google may have hit Forbes Advisor with a manual action, downgrading its rankings over maybe the site reputation abuse policy. Lars Lofgren wrote about this marketplace, as he put it, on September 1

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Barry SchwartzAug 28, 2024

Google has sent out Google Discover policy violations over the past day or so - misleading content notice https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-policy-violations-37978.html

#google #googlemanualaction #googlepenalty #googlediscover #seo

Google Issues Manual Actions Over Google Discover Policy Violations

In the past couple of days, Google has issued many manual actions around Google Discover policy violations. Just to be clear, you may have seen your Google Discover traffic drop with the August core u

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Barry SchwartzMay 24, 2024

Google's site reputation abuse policy is not being enforced using algorithmic means yet, still only manual actions https://www.seroundtable.com/google-site-reputation-abuse-policy-not-algorithmic-yet-37443.html via @searchliaison

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Google: The Site Reputation Abuse Policy Enforcement Not Yet Algorithmic

Google has once again said that its enforcement of the site reputation abuse policy is still only being done through manual actions and not algorithmically. Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liasion, s

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