Google’s site reputation abuse manual action will no longer impact the search results in the European Economic Area (EEA) starting August 30, 2026. This is in response to the European Commission’s investigation over the site reputation abuse policy and its requiring Google to adjust its systems for that policy not to be enforced within the EEA. What is changing. On August 30th, manual actions applied under Google’s site reputation policy will have different effects for those searching in the EEA than for those outside it. This is how it will differ, says Google: For users outside the EEA, a manual action regarding Google’s site reputation…
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