About a week ago, we reported that Google began enforcing its new site reputation abuse policy by issuing manual actions and ranking penalties to sites that violate these policies. Google now appears to be lifting some of these manual actions where sites took the necessary actions and are no longer in violation of the policy.
Glenn Gabe has access to the Search Console properties of some sites where he had examples of sites affected by the Site Reputation Policy penalty and then saw those penalties reversed after submitting a request for reconsideration.
Glenn posted the example a X and wrote: “Quick update on ‘Site Reputation Abuse’ manual actions. Some manual actions have already been removed. These sites managed their subdomains or coupon directories by not indexing (or nuclear exploitation of the content there).”
He added: “And it’s very interesting to see that visibility is increasing again for some (since Google still needs to see all non-indexed URLs and remove them from the index). That is, still indexed URLs can rank -se even if they’re not indexed (only because Google hasn’t crawled those URLs yet). This will change soon…”
Here’s the screenshot he shared showing that the site no longer has a manual action:
He also shared examples of a site that “slipped through the cracks” and was unaffected by manual action and probably should have:
By the way, here’s a site that never crashed (must have fallen through the cracks when manual actions were sent). But they didn’t index the coupon directory recently anyway. The site actually increases when others leave due to manual actions. But again, this content is not indexed… pic.twitter.com/6lz8umfeBl
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) May 11, 2024
Either way, once this affects you and the manual action is lifted, these directories will no longer be ranked in the future.
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