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Google may be issuing more manual action penalties over the past few weeks than it has over the weeks before that. The increase in manual actions seems to have started several weeks ago, but more so recently, according to some SEOs.
It is kind of funny; a decade or more ago, manual action complaints were super common. But then these manual actions kind of died down, and it seemed to me that Google’s algorithms were doing most of the heavy lifting. But some are saying we are seeing a lift in the complaints around manual actions recently, not like it was years ago, but more so than it was months ago.
Marie Haynes first posted about this on X. Marie did a ton of manual action consulting for a couple of decades now and she said, “Have had a big increase in requests for help with manual actions lately.”
She explained the types of manual actions she has been seeing, they include “thin content, pure spam, and scaled content,” she wrote. “Most of these sites are…
