Google Quickly Processing Discover & Google News Manual Actions

Feb 17, 2022 - 7:21 am 0 by

Google News Discover Manual Action Penalty

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google was sending out its first batch of manual actions (Google penalties) to news publications for Google News and Google Discover policy violations. Well, I am happy to report that Google is processing and even removing some of those manual actions already.

That is a super fast response time being that we've seen take several months to clear out recently.

Glenn Gabe posted on Twitter saying he is "seeing several publishers that received manual actions for violating Discover & Google News policies have those manual actions removed." He said this was done "after changes were implemented & reconsideration requests filed." Yea, this was a very quick turnaround time for Google with these manual actions.

As a reminder, about a year ago, Google first introduced guidelines around manual actions for Google Discover and Google News. Keep in mind, these manual actions to not impact web search, they should only impact Google Discover and Google News.

You can see a list of the manual actions for Google News and Discover over here.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Search Video Recaps

 
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Google News

Google Won't Be Broken Up In Monopoly Case But Required To Share Search Data

Sep 2, 2025 - 5:50 pm
Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2025

Sep 2, 2025 - 10:00 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

September 2025 Google Webmaster Report

Sep 2, 2025 - 7:51 am
Google Ads

New Google Ads Checkboxes To Filter Campaigns

Sep 2, 2025 - 7:41 am
Google Ads

Google Ads AI Max Not Designed To Go More Aggressively After SPN Inventory

Sep 2, 2025 - 7:31 am
Google Ads

Google Ads Search Google Maps For Location Assets

Sep 2, 2025 - 7:21 am
 
Previous Story: Not New: 15% Of Search Queries On Google Are Still New