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Unnatural Outbound Link Manual Actions from Google

April 11, 2016 at 4:20 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Unnatural Outbound Link Manual Actions from Google

Many bloggers were hit with “Unnatural Outbound Links” manual actions late Friday night.  This manual action is one that doesn’t seem to be sent out very frequently, as link related manual actions tend to target sites that receive the links, not the the sites that are doing the linking. It seems that the vast majority […]

Google Removes In-Depth Articles from Search Results

April 11, 2016 at 4:15 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Removes In-Depth Articles from Search Results

Google seems to have removed all instances of in-depth articles from the search results.  Dr. Pete Meyers confirmed the removal, and Mozcast shows a drop to 0% coverage. I did look at many of the keywords I track that included in-depth results, and none of the search results contained those results. Here is the Mozcast […]

Large Number of EasyRecipe Plugin Users Hit With Manual Action

April 11, 2016 at 4:10 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Large Number of EasyRecipe Plugin Users Hit With Manual Action

Do you own a recipe site and received a spammy rich snippet manual action on your site in the past week?  If so, it is likely a specific recipe plugin that is at fault for spammily marking up recipe pages. The Google Help Forums have multiple recipe site owners asking for help after receiving this […]

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