Google once again expanded its enforcement of its site reputation abuse policy. Google began enforcement via manual actions (manual penalties) in the U.S. in May. This expanded last week to Italy, Spain and France. And now Google is apparently starting to hit massive German sites over this policy.

If you have sections of your site that fall under the realm of site reputation abuse and you think you are safe because you are not a U.S.-English website, think again. Google is expanding this policy to more regions and languages – so be careful.

Barry Schwartz,
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