Google manual actions: the complete list, the causes and reconsideration request templates

AI-generated illustration photo: an open cardboard folder with tabbed sheets, a magnifying glass, a half-checked checklist, a highlighter and paper clips on a gray desk.

A manual action is a penalty decided by a human reviewer at Google when pages on a site don’t comply with Google’s spam policies. All or part of the site then drops in the search results, or disappears from them. It shows up in the Manual actions report in Search Console. As of October 10, … Read more