Google on Dealing With Manual Actions & Reconsideration Requests

In the latest episode of the Ask Google Webmasters video series, Google’s John Mueller offers advice regarding manual actions and reconsideration requests. Google penalties are referred to as manual actions because they are issued after Google’s webspam team manually reviews a website. A manual action can be partial removal of website content from search results, or it could result in an entire website being deindexed. Spam is one of many reasons why a manual action may be issued. For a complete list of reasons, see: The Complete List of Google Penalties & How to Recover.