It seems like for many, the manual actions within Google Search Console are disappearing. This is no magic trick, instead it seems to be some sort of bug. Google has not yet confirmed it but I am seeing numerous reports of complaints around this from SEOs over the past 24-hours or so.
If you go check for your manual actions in Google Search Console, if you had some yesterday, you might not have them today. It should say "no issues detected" even if you know you have issues.
Here are some screen shot and complaints of this bug on Twitter:
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— Onnorokom Manush (@RealOnnorokom) November 18, 2020
Definitely, bug!
3 of my manual actions have disappeared just a few hours ago! Did not submit any reconsideration request & no email from search console! pic.twitter.com/umdSB83WG5
Have Google screwed up again? It seems that all manual actions disappeared yesterday - Don't get too excited guys, I'm sure they will be back within 48hrs. pic.twitter.com/2VB9xmvTgr
— Rick Lomas (@ricklomas) November 19, 2020
Just did a site: search for the site in the screenshot above. They were dealing with a pure spam penalty and were deindexed. Still no pages for this site shown on the site: search.
— Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) November 18, 2020
My guess is this is a GSC bug. But we'll see!
Exactly the same happened to us. Also yesterday.
— Bartosz Góralewicz (@bart_goralewicz) November 19, 2020
There's definitely something going on. @DylanAdamek1 just checked several of our manual action clients they all show no current manual actions.
— Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) November 18, 2020
But none have a message saying the action was removed. pic.twitter.com/j8tmpm6Fwo
So do not celebrate, yet, if you do not see any manual actions in Google Search Console - they may have just disappeared temporarily due to a bug.
Daniel Waisberg from Google, who works with the Search Console team, said he is looking into it:
Looking into it...
— Daniel Waisberg (@danielwaisberg) November 19, 2020
