Google fair sent out emails to several sites that have site position abuse policy manual actions that those manual actions won't effect the hunt results inside the EEA, European Economic Area. This really took consequence on August 30, 2026, but now, two months later, Google is notifying location owners via Google Search Console.
The email was posted by Glenn Gabe on X and it reads:
New Site Reputation Policy ChangeGoogle has lately made several changes to its location position guideline inside the EEA. For pages that were earlier topic to a manual act under the location position policy, the former manual act volition no longer effect hunt results shown to users inside the EEA. Click current to perspective the changes to the policy, and current for additional information.
Glenn wrote, "New location position abuse emails went out fair now to sites that have been affected by SRA manual actions in the past. The email explains the changes according to how sites volition be handled for users in the EEA." "Note, this seems to have gone out to sites that don't have manual actions now for SRA (although they did at several item in the past)," Glenn added.
Here is his screenshot:
There is additionally this communication that is displayed in the manual actions spectator inside Search Console - "View connected messages":
As a reminder, Google came up alongside the site position abuse policy whenever it announced the March 2024 center update to combat against what we've called Parasite SEO. In January 2025, Google began enforcing its location position abuse guideline in Europe.
We knew this power happen, but honestly, I was surprised whenever Google really went through alongside it.
Forum conversation at X.
