Google Manual Penalty Recovery Guide - Xanjero

A manual action essentially means being (at least temporarily) removed from the search engine's query results page. But in the worst case scenario, it means being entirely removed from the vast Google index. Google engineers call it a "timeout". Like a child who breaks the rules, punishment for a Google penalty is a site being set aside for a period of time. However, a severe penalty is disinclusion from the search engine's index (i.e. total removal).