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A month ago, we reported that Google had issued warnings to bloggers over providing links in return for free products to review . Now it seems that the penalty actions reported over the weekend were directly related to Google’s warning last month. Google advised bloggers reviewing goods they’d received free of charge to nofollow any links pointing readers to sites where they can buy the products. As reported by SER , Google’s Webmaster Central Help Forum contains plenty of questions from bloggers who have received penalties over the weekend, like this one: The post by Sammi Penni in relation to the penalty notice shown above has been replied to by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google.
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Google manual action penalties were due to links for freebies