Google Manual Action Penalty Recovery Service

This can vary wildly depending on the nature of the manual action, depth of the issue, complexities of resolving and whether you have one or more multiple actions. Typically on average MOST of our clients see reconsideration requests successful around 6-8 weeks from when we are engaged.

In some cases we've had reconsideration requests done within 1-2 weeks of client onboarding, however, the timeframe is based on numerous variables.

In most cases yes but not always. Depending on the manual action and the nature of it can impact the outcome, generally manual actions apply to specific pages and subsequently once the reconsideration request goes through, all penalisation is removed and the page goes back to how it did - although this can take a few weeks.

However, things like site-wide policies or broader manual actions can leave a domain in a position where manual action recovery can take many months of ongoing clean up work + trust rebuilding. For most manual actions yes ranking and traffic recovery is swift.

Manual action recovery work is billed at £150-£200 per hour and typically works best on a retainer basis of around £2,000 - £4,000 a month subject to the level of work required. We can provide a FULLY integrated clean up service from link and spam cleanups to content rewriting, fresh link building and more.

A manual action (Google Penalty) is where someone from Google's search quality team have manually looked at your website to see if it has violated Google's webmaster guidelines or to see if spammy techniques appear to be apparent which have influenced rank. It's written in the name "manual action", meaning a human being sat down and evaluated your website to see what techniques appear to have been used to gamify rankings.

Any found violations are listed as a manual action within Google Search Console.

If you have lost rankings and traffic but there is no issue detected showing for the domain in search console than you haven't been hit with a penalty. If you've seen ranking losses and/or traffic losses than it's usually a result of Google core update / spam update or an indexing issue.

Check when the losses began by looking at your Google Search Console data and note where the point of decline starts - then compare your loss date to any google core updates in close proximity. Usually if a sudden ranking / traffic change happens within 1-2 weeks of a Google update it's usually that (these are not penal in the same way a manual action is).