Google’s Latest Manual Action Penalty: Spammy Structured Markup
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Anyone out there begin receiving this and or know when it started?
Google has recently began sending a new manual action spam notification to webmasters for “spammy structured markup” also known as rich snippet spam.
Your pal,
Chenzo
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Hey,
Another Shock! Things are coming harder and harder. I am reading it out from last 2 hours. Here are all related sources
- http://www.seroundtable.com/google-spammy-structured-markup-notifications-18061.html
- http://www.seroundtable.com/google-rich-snippets-spam-14638.html
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/xfRvnaiNZ_Q
- https://plus.google.com/+PierreFar/posts/HZJZ2kWyjVY
- http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4400099.htm
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/webmasters/xfRvnaiNZ_Q
This is going to hurt lots and lots of websites!
Regards
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I have not heard of that until today.
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-spammy-structured-markup-notifications-18061.html
Looks like it is brand new.
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