A manual action can have a profound impact on a website’s appearance in Google. It’s capable of demoting a website’s content in search results and removing content from the search index altogether.

The day after Google released its new search spam policies, including the March 2024 spam and core updates, Google began penalizing websites that the search company felt violated those spam policies.

Google has unleashed tons of manual actions, search ranking penalties you can see within Google Search Console, after it released its search spam policy updates on Tuesday. The manual actions seemed ...