Hiya John Mueller First off, thank you for handling so many difficult questions on a regular basis. It can't be easy. As you might have guessed, I've got one myself. Given how drastically manual actions can impact revenue and operations, what are the odds that warnings might be implemented in the future, before an action is delivered/taken? A week's notice to get things fixed before removing a domain entirely from SERPs does not seem unreasonable, especially given how this can impact dozens, maybe hundreds of people working there. Hope you have a great day,
Google and its Employees Always utter the same English BS, always the same Technical jargons, ex. They always say write useful content and then your website will be considered for news and discover (with some other requirements too) even after that a genuine website does not rank in any of their Podium, and all those AI generated content websites where title, featured images and actual content doesn't even match consistently get included in discover feed and get millions of traffic making 10s of thousands of dollars in earning
Adrian Borg
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John Mueller looking at other marketing channels even Google owned things are typically a lot more direct.. this is ok, this is not ok Why is all this secrecy and interpretation still In SEO... Would t it be easier for everyone if direct dos and don't are released? Ok maybe might help bigger players but kills all guess work.. I'm a tester myself and know it might sound ridiculous but as X marketing person u just want to succeed based on your budgets.. give Google what Google wants ..why guess work? This would also improve investor confidence and lead to better quality searches so please don't take this as a short sighted message.. but would be great to hear why the secrecy and i can't see it helping anyone at the moment other than boosting the black market
Considering also that websites basing themselves on ranking on page 1 of the serp employs a lot of people (including SEO people) and if a company does not get the revenue pencilled people start to be let go.
Vlad Melnic Can you check your PM Mate?
Valid point!
Senior Search Analyst / Search Relations team lead
3wThat's a good & hard question. Generally, I'm in favor, but it's challenging... If we do these to improve the quality of the search results (the goal is not to penalize sites but rather to improve results), then it would be strange to purposely leave the results bad for a week. Also, often our hope is to neutralize the problem (eg, for links: to ignore the bad links in our systems), so it's rarely going to be the case that fixing the issue (eg, removing bad links that artificially affected a site) will result in a site staying in the same place in search.