Google add "Manual Actions" to webmaster tools

gabs on Thu, 2013-08-08 23:43.

Search marketing

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Google have just added “manual actions” to the navigation in webmaster tools.

I can’t tell yet what it will show other than warning and maybe the awaited examples of problems e.g. bad link examples or problematic pages/structure

It really looks like google is opening up a lot more to webmaster which I think is great news.

More info from google here http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/manual-actions-viewer.html?spref=fb

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Collecting some feedback from users:

annsmarty on Fri, 2013-08-09 07:32.

Google seems to be showing nofollow links as examples of unnatural links in their new tool. Ooops: https://twitter.com/patrickaltoft/status/365753291914756096 (with the bunch of comments below it, like: It's a forum post (natural) with one link on the page & no duplications elsewhere)
Now seeing cases where the example links to the site don't even exist. Perhaps they've been recently removed? Or does G have a reporting bug?: https://twitter.com/Marie_Haynes/status/365620884653871104 (and: Cache date July 27. http://Archive.org doesn't show a link in the past.)

Bugs?

Sounds like Google isn't that well ready to go more transparent with their link records...

weird indeed

whiterabbit on Sat, 2013-08-10 17:40.

Apparently the have taken it down, citing bugs ... http://searchengineland.com/google-says-snag-has-taken-manual-spam-actions-viewer-offline-169396 . They're saying that it is going to be back up in a couple days but I guess lets see. This would not be the first time that google giveth and taketh away features from GWMT...