MG Marketing » manual action http://mg-mk.com/en Online Marketing Agency Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:30:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Softonic.com is hit with Google manual action for ‘thin content’ http://mg-mk.com/en/softonic-com-is-hit-with-google-manual-action-for-%e2%80%98thin-content%e2%80%99/ http://mg-mk.com/en/softonic-com-is-hit-with-google-manual-action-for-%e2%80%98thin-content%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:26:03 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/softonic-com-is-hit-with-google-manual-action-for-%e2%80%98thin-content%e2%80%99/ Software and app portal softonic.com has been on the receiving end of a manual action from Google, meaning the site’s visibility has taken a hit.  As covered by Juan Gonzalez on the Sistrix site , there’s a sharp decline in visibility towards the end of May: The stats show a loss of visibility on various Google sites: Google US (-40%) UK (-33%) Germany (-42%) Italy (-61%) France (-53%) the Netherlands (-31%) Spain (-45%) and more… The major loss in visibility is for Softonics’s biggest directory, /s/ , which accounts for 40% of the entire domains visibility. The full list is here , but suffice to say it contains many of the site’s most popular downloadable assets.

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]]> http://mg-mk.com/en/softonic-com-is-hit-with-google-manual-action-for-%e2%80%98thin-content%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this http://mg-mk.com/en/how-google-fights-webspam-and-what-you-need-to-learn-from-this/ http://mg-mk.com/en/how-google-fights-webspam-and-what-you-need-to-learn-from-this/#comments Wed, 04 May 2016 11:52:48 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/how-google-fights-webspam-and-what-you-need-to-learn-from-this/ Google has this week revealed its annual report on how it has policed the internet over the last 12 months.

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]]> http://mg-mk.com/en/how-google-fights-webspam-and-what-you-need-to-learn-from-this/feed/ 0 Google manual action penalties were due to links for freebies http://mg-mk.com/en/google-manual-action-penalties-were-due-to-links-for-freebies/ http://mg-mk.com/en/google-manual-action-penalties-were-due-to-links-for-freebies/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:04:28 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/google-manual-action-penalties-were-due-to-links-for-freebies/ 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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]]> http://mg-mk.com/en/google-manual-action-penalties-were-due-to-links-for-freebies/feed/ 0 “It Was A Manual Action Against eBay, Not Panda 4.0″ That Caused A Drop In Rankings, According to Re/Code by @mattsouthern http://mg-mk.com/en/%e2%80%9cit-was-a-manual-action-against-ebay-not-panda-4-0%e2%80%b3-that-caused-a-drop-in-rankings-according-to-recode-by-mattsouthern/ http://mg-mk.com/en/%e2%80%9cit-was-a-manual-action-against-ebay-not-panda-4-0%e2%80%b3-that-caused-a-drop-in-rankings-according-to-recode-by-mattsouthern/#comments Sat, 24 May 2014 01:55:13 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/%e2%80%9cit-was-a-manual-action-against-ebay-not-panda-4-0%e2%80%b3-that-caused-a-drop-in-rankings-according-to-recode-by-mattsouthern/ Since Panda 4.0 was rolled out early this week, there have been reports about which websites saw the greatest drop in rankings. According to the reports, eBay was one of the top Panda losers. [Update]: this article was amended to reflect that this breaking news is via a report from Re/code.

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]]> http://mg-mk.com/en/%e2%80%9cit-was-a-manual-action-against-ebay-not-panda-4-0%e2%80%b3-that-caused-a-drop-in-rankings-according-to-recode-by-mattsouthern/feed/ 0 Google’s Matt Cutts: Feel Free To Use The Disavow Tool Even Without A Manual Action http://mg-mk.com/en/google%e2%80%99s-matt-cutts-feel-free-to-use-the-disavow-tool-even-without-a-manual-action/ http://mg-mk.com/en/google%e2%80%99s-matt-cutts-feel-free-to-use-the-disavow-tool-even-without-a-manual-action/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:16:07 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/google%e2%80%99s-matt-cutts-feel-free-to-use-the-disavow-tool-even-without-a-manual-action/ In a new video answer today from Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, he says that you can use the disavow tool even if you do not have a manual action. In which cases can you use this tool even without a manual action

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]]> http://mg-mk.com/en/google%e2%80%99s-matt-cutts-feel-free-to-use-the-disavow-tool-even-without-a-manual-action/feed/ 0 Google Hits Mozilla With Spam Penalty Over User Generated Content http://mg-mk.com/en/google-hits-mozilla-with-spam-penalty-over-user-generated-content/ http://mg-mk.com/en/google-hits-mozilla-with-spam-penalty-over-user-generated-content/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:19:28 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/google-hits-mozilla-with-spam-penalty-over-user-generated-content/ Have user generated content on your site? Pay attention to what those users are doing. That’s the takeaway from Google hitting Mozilla with a spam penalty this week, along with another takeaway

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]]> http://mg-mk.com/en/google-hits-mozilla-with-spam-penalty-over-user-generated-content/feed/ 0 Google Charts “Manual Actions” Against Spam In Search For First Time http://mg-mk.com/en/google-charts-%e2%80%9cmanual-actions%e2%80%9d-against-spam-in-search-for-first-time/ http://mg-mk.com/en/google-charts-%e2%80%9cmanual-actions%e2%80%9d-against-spam-in-search-for-first-time/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:36:27 +0000 admin http://mg-mk.com/en/google-charts-%e2%80%9cmanual-actions%e2%80%9d-against-spam-in-search-for-first-time/ How often does Google take “manual action” against websites for spam, where a human being reviews a site and decides it deserves some type of penalty? For the first time, Google’s released a chart showing this, going back nearly 10 years. The chart is part of Google’s new…

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