Got hit by Spammy Structured Markup Penalty. Need Help
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I have fixed the issue found in strctured data testing tool. Even I removed entire schema. Till now I have submitted reconsideration request 5 times and it rejected every time. Don't know how to lift this penalty.
Any advise??
Need help guys my websites are going through very critical situations in terms of traffic from getting this manual action from Google. This is related to Pharma Industry.
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Hi Rashmi,
In my experience, the normal extent of a spammy structured markup penalty is the removal of the SERP features that are associated with that markup - and often if you believe the remedy is to remove the offending markup, you don't get the SERP features either so there often isn't that much of a "recovery" that's possible in this kind of situation.
What kind of symptoms are you seeing / how do you know you have an ongoing structured markup penalty?
I don't know of any situations where there are legitimate ongoing penalties even after you have removed all structured markup so I suspect there must be something else going on (either the situation is resolved, but the search console message remains - noting that if you have removed the markup, you've probably lost the rich snippets as well, or the issue that remains is unrelated to structured data).
Can you share more about the symptoms / notices / communications you have had with the Google team? Thanks!
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