Penalties

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week I covered how the third-party search rank checking tools seem to have cooled, but the chatter is still pretty heated. Maybe…

Google’s John Mueller said he was generally in favor to the idea of giving prior notice to receiving a manual action, but he said “it’s challenging.” John then explains that…

Google is updated its Google Ads third-party policy to add new penalties for third parties, such as PPC agencies, “that enable significant or sustained policy violations.” These new penalties include…

About a week ago, we reported that Google began enforcing its new site reputation abuse policy by issuing manual actions and ranking penalties for those sites that violated those policies….

Google’s Danny Sullivan said that not only can a rich result manual action result in the removal of your rich results from displaying in Google Search but also it can…