Google has two ways to penalize websites that try to cheat the ranking system: algorithmic penalties and manual actions. With manual actions, real people apply a penalty to the website that does not comply with Google’s guidelines.
On Twitter, Google’s John Mueller said that manual actions can be replaced by an algorithmic penalty. Here’s John Mueller’s tweet:
Yes, manual actions expire after time. Often things change over the years, so what might have required manual intervention to solve / improve back then, might be handled better algorithmically nowadays.
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) 7. September 2018
Manual penalties vs. algorithmic penalties
Google uses manual penalties if algorithms aren’t good enough to do the job. As Google’s algorithms evolve, many manual penalties aren’t necessary anymore.
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