{"id":13118,"date":"2020-07-22T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=13118"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:00:23","slug":"google-clarifies-spam-reports-represent-small-portion-manual-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/google-clarifies-spam-reports-represent-small-portion-manual-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Google clarifies that spam reports represent only a small portion of manual actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do spam reports lead to manual actions by Google? Nobody knew about it precisely, but many SEO professionals believed that the two are correlated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Google\u2019s Gary Illyes recently clarified that spam reports only represent a small portion of manual actions. Instead, these reports are generally used to improve Google\u2019s spam detection capabilities and search results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThanks to our users, we receive hundreds of spam reports every day. While many of the spam reports lead to manual actions, they represent a small fraction of the manual actions we issue. Most of the manual actions come from the work our internal teams regularly do to detect spam and improve search results.\u201d<\/span><\/i><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google\u2019s spam detection capabilities are very effective. On average, It filters out 25 billion spam pages every day. Google search results are 99% spam-free, but there is \u201calways room for improvement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe reality is that while our spam detection systems work well, there\u2019s always room for improvement, and spam reporting is a crucial resource to help us with that. Spam reports in aggregate form help us analys<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e trends and patterns in spammy content to improve our algorithms,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said Gary Illyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Content quality and spam detection<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google\u2019s immense focus on high-quality content has been pivotal in improving its spam-detection capabilities in the SERPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Gary Illyes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOverall, one of the best approaches to keeping spam out of Search is to rely on high quality content created by the web community and our ability to surface it through ranking.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>A clear distinction<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google has also made a clear distinction between manual actions against websites and spam reports in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/35769?hl=en#quality_guidelines\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Webmasters Guidelines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new paragraph in the Webmaster Guidelines explicitly states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you believe that another site is abusing Google\u2019s quality guidelines, please let us know by filing a spam report. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, and will use the report for further improving our spam detection systems.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In summary, a spam report against a website will not necessarily lead to a manual action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find more information about this in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/webmasters.googleblog.com\/2020\/07\/how-spam-reports-are-used-at-google.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FamDG+%28Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog%29\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google\u2019s blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do spam reports lead to manual actions by Google? Nobody knew about it precisely, but many SEO professionals believed that the two are correlated. 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