Google is giving manual action penalties even to legitimate businesses

Starblazer said:

Google used to give manual action penalties like chocolates on a business class flight over a decade ago but almost stopped it. We rarely talk about these penalties for white hat sites as the algorithm takes care of things and wipes the spam links clean so that we can focus on the content. However, there is a spike in these penalties recently. The common types include thin content, pure spam, and scaled content. It looks like Google targeted AI-generated sites with a specific pattern and the legitimate sites that match this pattern are collateral.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2107902788738908421

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linda held said:

i'd be interested to see the actual numbers too. if legitimate sites are getting hit, comparing the manual action reasons and affected page patterns could help separate a real quality issue from false positives.

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Starblazer said:

Google used to give manual action penalties like chocolates on a business class flight over a decade ago but almost stopped it. We rarely talk about these penalties for white hat sites as the algorithm takes care of things and wipes the spam links clean so that we can focus on the content. However, there is a spike in these penalties recently. The common types include thin content, pure spam, and scaled content. It looks like Google targeted AI-generated sites with a specific pattern and the legitimate sites that match this pattern are collateral.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2107902788738908421

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