Google has rolled out tons of manual actions, search ranking penalties that you can see in Google Search Console, after it released updates to its spam policy on Tuesday. The manual actions appeared to have been mostly distributed yesterday, Wednesday, March 6, a day after Google announced the new spam policy changes.
As a reminder, Google has three new or changed search spam policies; the Expired Domain and Content Abuse that went into effect yesterday, and the Site Reputation Abuse Policy that will begin in May 2024. I go through these updated policies in detail here.
Google issues a manual action against a site when a human Google reviewer has determined that the site’s pages do not comply with Google’s spam policies. Most manual actions address attempts to manipulate Google’s search index. Most of the issues reported here will cause pages or sites to be ranked lower or omitted from search results without any visual indication to the user, Google said.
Google has been busy issuing manual actions to sites it believes are in violation of these two new policies and other spam policy violations. In fact, many SEOs and site owners report that their sites no longer appear in the Google Search index, even for a site order, after receiving manual actions.
To be clear, those affected by the March 2024 Core Update will not receive manual actions. Algorithmic updates do not result in Search Console notifications, as much as we all want an automated action viewer in Search Console. It’s also possible to get hit by a manual action and also by an algorithmic penalty (Google doesn’t like to call them penalties).
I got some of these reports on X and also in the comments area here. Glenn Gabe summed it up with this GIF:
Google’s manual actions team last night. pic.twitter.com/9zCLYXmURd
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 6, 2024
Here are the complaints or mentions about it:
@glenngabe @lilyraynyc @Marie_Haynes @searchliaison
I got a manual penalty on one of my older websites saying it’s pure SPAM, which is totally not the case as we’ve been doing the best possible niche work since 2016. I’d love to get some help. pic.twitter.com/JuEfkc8pqb
— Harsh (@seo_harsh) March 6, 2024
IMO Google is indexing known crap sites first to save processing power for later parts of updates 🤷♂️
— Gael Breton (@GaelBreton) March 6, 2024
My site has 32,000 posts and I don’t know how to find a spam article. pic.twitter.com/jWq5e7pwLS
— Crying New (@aCodizOfficial) March 6, 2024
🔥 10 Sites completely deindexed a #Googlejust a few that i found doing some reviews:
🔴 equityatles.org [4M – 900k]
🔴 filmfeed.com [1M – 850k]
🔴 qmunicatemagazine.com [750k – 680k]
🔴 newsunzip.com [400k – 290k]
🔴 tvguidetime.com [300k – 770k]… pic.twitter.com/ZJ4KQo0ElE
— Bruno Dangelo (@porteseo) March 6, 2024
I was checking a group of SERPs I monitor for a collection of horrible spam sites that have been around and crawling for 12-18 months. Many are completely de-indexed and others are hidden at filter=0 or literally grouped at the bottom (the actual background, like the… pic.twitter.com/Su2gpIoH8z
— Jeff Coyle (@jeffrey_coyle) March 6, 2024
Many sites were hit with a manual action penalty overnight.#seo #coreupdate @googlesearchc #Google #GSC pic.twitter.com/dxXbdwyhjN
— Azad hossen 🇧🇩 (@azadhossen241) March 6, 2024
lol, the site was hit by the May 2022 update and I haven’t done much with it, because I had already done everything “right”. Original images and research, no AI content, 6 years and just over 100 posts. A big site in the niche (still indexed) stole my content and DMCA’d me even though pic.twitter.com/HwEnXn8Zhu
— Shawna Newman 🏳️🌈 (@ShawnaNewman) March 6, 2024
My biggest money site was also hit with manual actions! I’m confused and don’t know what to do next since Google is 50/50 even if you’re innocent.
— Akinbobola A. (@bobbydoo2003) March 6, 2024
It’s all manual penalties atm. Sites that have been reported for months are being delisted.
By the way. Has anyone seen an update to something that completely removes the website from the index? I am only familiar with it after a manual action.
— Karbofon (@karbofon) March 6, 2024
Google is definitely manually deindexing massive AI spam sites right now.
This one was ranked #1 for “how old is taylor swift’s daughter”
She doesn’t have a daughter. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/yAvQajSQJ4
— Mike Futia (@mikefutia) March 6, 2024
@searchliaison One of my 9 year old human content websites got manually penalized and everything got de-indexed overnight
– All content was written by humans
-He was publishing 20 articles a day about celebrities and the entertainment industry pic.twitter.com/9wjAOddbK5
— Learningweb (@seoninja69) March 7, 2024
Google just announced the March 2024 spam updates, and now I’m hearing at least 25 domains/sites that have received manual action penalties for “pure spam”.
So not only is Google dealing with this through updates to something, it’s penalizing sites and giving them manual actions.
If you… pic.twitter.com/2DKp0gEZEd
— Bill Hartzer (@bhartzer) March 6, 2024
And here are a few more examples of sites that were hit hard by September’s HCU(X) that are now receiving manual actions for pure (and fully deindexed) spam… I’ll share more examples of volatility soon. pic.twitter.com/Cxr8a8Q7xd
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 7, 2024
There are also a lot of these complaints in the comments area here.
Also, here’s an affiliate who was using a ton of AI content and other means to monetize their sites and said the update was “cheers”. He said he pays about $13,000 a month. Here is his video:
And I love Boser – he’s been doing SEO since before there was Google:
Did no one see that coming? are you serious Here’s a little tip… If you talk crap in public about how you’re sending the crap to Google, you get fired. That’s how it’s always been, and always will be.
— Greg Boser (@GregBoser) March 7, 2024
I wonder how bad it will be when Google starts enforcing the site reputation abuse policy.
Discussion in the forum a X.
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