{"id":855,"date":"2022-02-23T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/?p=855"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:42:17","slug":"dont-get-tripped-up-by-googles-manual-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/articles\/dont-get-tripped-up-by-googles-manual-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t get tripped up by Google\u2019s \u201cmanual actions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be following through on a warning it gave about a year ago, with many publishers talking of receiving \u201cmanual actions\u201d to<!--more--> do with their content.<\/p>\n<p>Publishers in Google News and Google Discover have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/news\/publisher-center\/answer\/6204050?hl=en&#038;ref_topic=9603441\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10 policies<\/a> their content needs to be in keeping with. Quite some time after the initial warning, a reported spike in Google\u2019s \u201cmanual actions\u201d (which are carried out by people working for Google who deem content to go against the policies) has left many publishers fretful about their content.<\/p>\n<p>If the worst happens and you receive one of these notifications, don\u2019t panic, but you need to act fast. Try to address the policy you\u2019ve been told you\u2019re in breach of, and ask Google to review it. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help, however, that Google doesn\u2019t tell you exactly what you\u2019ve done to fall foul of its policies, so the best advice is to try not to get hit by actions by ensuring your content ticks every box on the first time of asking. <\/p>\n<p>If you can write accurate, useful and engaging content, we want to hear from you! <a href=\"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/apply-to-be-a-writer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fill in our application form<\/a> and you could become a writer for Words of Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be following through on a warning it gave about a year ago, with many publishers talking of receiving \u201cmanual actions\u201d to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsofworth.org\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}