{"id":651346,"date":"2025-01-29T06:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-sending-manual-actions-for-site-reputation-abuse-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:20:18","slug":"google-sending-manual-actions-for-site-reputation-abuse-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-sending-manual-actions-for-site-reputation-abuse-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google sending manual actions for site reputation abuse in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af50be02ce4d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af50be02ce4d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-sending-manual-actions-for-site-reputation-abuse-in-germany\/#This_comes_a_week_after_Google_expanded_enforcement_of_this_policy_in_Italy_Spain_and_France\" >This comes a week after Google expanded enforcement of this policy in Italy, Spain and France.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"This_comes_a_week_after_Google_expanded_enforcement_of_this_policy_in_Italy_Spain_and_France\"><\/span>This comes a week after Google expanded enforcement of this policy in Italy, Spain and France.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"bialty-container\">\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to be rolling out manual actions, search penalties, across German-based sites over the site reputation abuse policy. This comes a week or so after Google expanded the penalties across Europe, for sites in Italy, Spain, and France.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we\u2019re seeing.<\/strong>\u00a0Christian Kunz, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seo-suedwest.de\/9640-google-manuelle-massnahmen-wegen-site-reputation-abuse-in-deutschland-angekommen.html\">posted<\/a> on his German-based SEO blog that Google has probably taken first manual actions in Germany against site reputation abuse. A search results set for coupon codes that previously showed many <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> websites is now no longer showing these sites in the top rankings.  <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/laurachiocciora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura Chiocciora<\/a>, head of SEO at Bravo Savings Network,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraChiocciora\/status\/1884165767429865631\">posted on X<\/a> adding this morning:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;adidas rabattcode&#8217; yesterday vs today <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i9qq7DizgX\">pic.twitter.com\/i9qq7DizgX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laura Chiocciora (@LauraChiocciora) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraChiocciora\/status\/1884165767429865631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-minify=\"1\" async src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/cache\/min\/1\/widgets.js?ver=1738007234\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why we care.<\/strong>\u00a0Google seems to accelerating its enforcement of the site reputation abuse policy well beyond the US and other regions now.  It is just a matter of time until this expands to more and more regions and locations.<\/p>\n<p>If you have content on your site that is going against this policy, then it might be time to start planning on removing it, even if you are in a country that has not been impacted yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. manual actions.<\/strong>\u00a0Google began penalizing sites under its\u00a0(then) new search spam policies\u00a0in March 2024. This was announced at the same time as the\u00a0March 2024 Google core update, which Google\u2019s Elizabeth Tucker called\u00a0the biggest core update ever\u00a0at SMX Advanced last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is site reputation abuse?<\/strong>\u00a0When third-party sites host low-quality content provided by third parties to piggyback on the ranking power of those third-party websites. As Google told us in March 2024:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cA third party might publish payday loan reviews on a trusted educational website to gain ranking benefit from the site.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSuch content ranking highly in Search can confuse or mislead visitors who may have vastly different expectations for the content on a given website.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under Google\u2019s new policy, site reputation abuse is defined as \u201cthird-party content produced primarily for ranking purposes and without close oversight of a website owner\u201d and \u201cintended to manipulate Search rankings\u201d will be considered spam.<\/p>\n<p>The new Google Search spam policies about reputation abuse was announced by Google\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/blog\/2024\/03\/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation\">over here<\/a>\u00a0and and the updated policies are\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/essentials\/spam-policies#site-reputation\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Google expanded the policy to include first party content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About manual actions.<\/strong>\u00a0Websites that Google takes manual action are reviewed by humans \u2013 they are not given algorithmically. According to Google:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cGoogle issues a manual action against a site when a human reviewer at Google has determined that pages on the site are not compliant with\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/essentials\/spam-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u2019s spam policies<\/a>. Most manual actions address attempts to manipulate our search index. Most issues reported here will result in pages or sites being ranked lower or omitted from search results without any visual indication to the user.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"about-author\">\n<p>About the author<\/p>\n<div class=\"information\">\n<div class=\"author-module\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-lg-3 text-center\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid rounded-circle avatar-border\" alt=\"Barry Schwartz\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/images\/authors\/BarrySchwartz-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid rounded-circle avatar-border\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/images\/authors\/BarrySchwartz-lg.jpg\" alt=\"Barry Schwartz\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-lg-9\">\n<div class=\"about\">\n<div class=\"name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Barry Schwartz<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"row g-2 pt-2\">\n<div class=\"col-auto twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fsearchengineland.com%2F&amp;region=follow_link&amp;screen_name=rustybrick&amp;tw_p=followbutton&amp;variant=2.0\" rel=\"me\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"opens in a new tab\"><i class=\"fab fa-x-twitter\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-auto\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rustybrick\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"opens in a new tab\"><i class=\"fab fa-linkedin\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBarry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. 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He also runs <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Search Engine Roundtable<\/a>, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the &#8220;US Search Personality Of The Year,&#8221; you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O&#8217;Clock.<\/p>\n<p>Barry can be followed\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/\">on X here<\/a>\u00a0and you can learn more about\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rustybrick.com\/barry\">Barry Schwartz over here<\/a> or on his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barryschwartz.org\/\">personal site<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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