A whole new set of manual actions have been published that focuses on Google News and Google Discover policies and guidelines. Originally, manual actions were applied to just Google web search related guidelines, but now, manual actions will be applied to Google News and Google Discover. What are manual actions? Manual actions are when human reviews at Google …

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According to Google’s Danial Waisberg, it seems that it has fixed a bug where some sites with manual actions weren’t seeing those manual actions in Google Search Console. As you can see from the following tweet, Waisberg said that everything should be back to normal. The trouble all began on November 18, and was finally resolved …

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In an announcement by Gary Illyes on the Google webmaster blog, Google wants to clarify that spam reports are only to improve Google’s spam detection algorithms. The mention of manual actions were removed from the Google webmaster guidelines since these spam reports are going to lead to a Google employee reviewing a site and manually penalizing …

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In this video, we’ll get ideas from SEMrush on how to discover and disavow toxic backlinks to avoid Google penalties, and find and recover lost backlinks.

In early July, Google dropped a subset of Bing’s website from its index. The Bing Discover pages were dropped out of Google’s search results completely, resulting in a lose of millions of pageviews from Google searches for Bing. The following screenshot is of Google showing no results from Bing Discover for a site:bing.com/discover command. SEMrush is …

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Google has been able to fix the Search Console data bug that delayed with most reports supposedly because of the de-indexing bug. But now, it seems that data from April 9 to April 25 was completely lost and filled with April 26 data instead. This impacted reports found in Google Search Console with the exception of the Performance report. …

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In regards to Google’s manual actions, there are real people who will apply penalties to website that don’t comply with Google’s Webmaster guidelines.  In 2013, Google released a manual actions viewer in Google Search Console to communicate human-added penalties to your website. On September 7, Google webmaster trends analyst, John Mueller, said on Twitter that sometimes manual actions can be replaced …

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Juan Felipe Rincon, the global search outreach lead of Google has shared some updated metrics on Google’s spam-preventive measures over the past year.  Compared to last year, Google about 3 million fewer manual action notices this year. Last year, Google said that it had sent 9 million web spam notices through Google Search Console.  That number dropped this year …

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Whether you’ve heard of private blog networks(PBNs) or not before, you may not be sure what they are or why they are used.  A PBN is a network of websites that is used to build links (and ultimately pass authority) to a single website for the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings.  This can be …

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Google, in a rare move, confirmed that a publisher by the name of Natural Links was penalized and deindexed by the major search engine over a webmaster guidelines violation.  It was stated by Google’s John Mueller that the site was using sneaky mobile redirect, and once that is “cleaned up, the site can submit a reconsideration request through …

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