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Google confines Site Reputation manual actions to searchers outside the EEA
From August 30, 2026 Google stops applying the ranking hit from a Site Reputation manual action to EEA searchers, so the same page can rank two ways and an aggregate traffic line no longer tells you whether you were penalised.
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