Google's John Mueller answers questions about honest SEO mistakes and how Google handles them. Will Google ignore it or give a manual action?
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Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller answers a question about making honest mistakes in SEO and if websites get a penalty for accidentally breaking Google’s rules.
This is discussed in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot Series on YouTube. Specifically, Mueller addresses the following question:
“How Google Reacts to Honest Mistakes”
There’s a lot of information about SEO on the Internet. It’s not always up to date or necessarily true.
People learning about SEO easily make mistakes that could lead to the ever-watching eye of Google swooping down with a manual action and rank drop.
Mueller begins by clarifying he can only speak about the Google webmaster guidelines and webspam policies. It’s easy for people to accidentally fall into bad practices because of well-meaning advice from a friend or seeing incorrect information online.
Google Understands Mistakes Happen
Mueller said nobody is 100 percent perfect when it comes to SEO, and the algorithm tries to understand that. If there is an issue when crawling your site, Googlebot will isolate and ignore it.
Instead, Google will narrow its focus on the parts of your site where its SEO fits within the...
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