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(Entry was posted by Tim Capper on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/06/2016).

Manual Penalties in Search Console

An interesting one for Manual Penalties in Search Console

This user had his GMB page suspended, one of the reasons was a manual penalty applied to connected site. The other is that the previous business is still squatting on his address, but that another issue.

The site is : moosemagoos (dot )com ( the www version has not been redirected )

The penalty is for Pure Spam, which in theory is for:

Some of the most common violations of Google’s quality guidelines include automatically generated (also called “auto-generated”) content, scraped content or cloaking. Hidden text or links, sneaky redirects and loading pages with irrelevant keywords are also techniques that violate guidelines.

Looking at way back machine, the site used to be for a Bar of that name, but it has been parked for years.

Very basic 5 page website >> so where is the Pure Spam.

One thing that possible is the culprit is their online store wepartyyouparty (dot) com, where the Indoor Centre tab is not to a page but a redirect.

I have not looked at what the wepartyyouparty site is up to, but it may be this redirect is causing the issue.

I have asked the user to connect the Party site to search console and check for any manual penalties.
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  • Tim Capper: An interesting one for Manual Penalties in Search Console

    This user had his GMB page suspended, one of the reasons was a manual penalty applied to connected site. The other is that the previous business is still squatting on his address, but that another issue.

    The site is : moosemagoos (dot )com ( the www version has not been redirected )

    The penalty is for Pure Spam, which in theory is for:

    Some of the most common violations of Google’s quality guidelines include automatically generated (also called “auto-generated”) content, scraped content or cloaking. Hidden text or links, sneaky redirects and loading pages with irrelevant keywords are also techniques that violate guidelines.

    Looking at way back machine, the site used to be for a Bar of that name, but it has been parked for years.

    Very basic 5 page website >> so where is the Pure Spam.

    One thing that possible is the culprit is their online store wepartyyouparty (dot) com, where the Indoor Centre tab is not to a page but a redirect.

    I have not looked at what the wepartyyouparty site is up to, but it may be this redirect is causing the issue.

    I have asked the user to connect the Party site to search console and check for any manual penalties.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 12/06/2016).