All Of Google's Manual Actions For Search Spam

Aug 9, 2013 - 8:46 am 4 by

Google PenaltyAs I mentioned a few minutes ago in my story about Google's new manual spam action viewer - Google has documented all of the manual actions a site may receive for spamming their search results.

Here are the eleven documents from Google on these manual spam actions:

With that, Google produced a total of nine videos, I believe only seven being new videos, on these manual actions.

Here are all nine videos:

Does Google take manual action on webspam?

Cloaking:

Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing:

Pure spam:

Thin content with little or no added value:

Unnatural links from your site:

Unnatural Links to site:

Unnatural Links to site - impacts links:

User-generated spam:

Every SEO should make time to read all those documents above and watch all these videos.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

 

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