Manual Penalty Reporting in Webmaster Tools


Gooogle has just added the ability to check your site for a manual penalty within Webmaster tools. You can find the new Manual Action Viewer by logging into your Webmaster tools account, clicking the Search Traffic section, and then choosing Manual Actions.

This is what you hope to see when you go to check:

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And this is what you don't want to find:

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However, if you do see a manual penalty notice in your Manual Action Viewer, be sure to read over our featured resources to see what actions you need to take to resolve it:

Then be sure to leverage Google's Manual Actions Help site. which features the different types of Manual Penalties (everything from hacked site to unnatural links), multimedia explanations on what it is and even how to fix it.

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