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Google Manual Action - How long does it take to affect the site?

AlmostHuman

7:00 am on Aug 30, 2013 (gmt 0)

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Well, I recieved a "manual action" notification yesterday of the following type:

[cropme.ru...]

(Unnatural Links to your site - impacts links)

However, we haven't noticed any significant drop in the rankings. In fact, it doesn't look like there's been any drop at all.

Our traffic decreased by about 15% some month ago, so I wonder if it is possible that the action was taken at that time and that only now that I received that notification.

What I also want to know is how long does it take for a penalty or manual action to get into effect and actually start influence traffic/rankings - immediately, a day, two days, week, month?

I can only surmise that I received the notification long after it was taken (a months ago).

aakk9999

11:51 am on Aug 30, 2013 (gmt 0)

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In two instances I know, it took about 4 weeks since the message in WMT for the site to drop in rankings. However this was for the "Unatural links" message for the whole site, not for a particular page(s).

If this message results in a particular page drop in SERPs, you may or may not feel the traffic loss - it really depends how much % traffic that page was bringing to the site.

I am wondering if anyone else who got this particular message in WMT has seen changes in traffic or ranking before or after the message, and in what respect.

jimbeetle

4:16 pm on Aug 30, 2013 (gmt 0)

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Be sure to view Matt Cutts' video [youtube.com] and related blog post [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com].

asusplay

10:34 pm on Aug 30, 2013 (gmt 0)

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Day by day traffic started falling progressively and within one week my traffic had decreased by more than 90%...

Planet13

2:14 pm on Aug 31, 2013 (gmt 0)

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@ asusplay

Day by day traffic started falling progressively and within one week my traffic had decreased by more than 90%...

Can you confirm that your situation was similar to the original poster's in that you were hit for Partial Matches (not side-wide matches)?

Also, is your site predominately related to just ONE or two keywords? Or does your site derive traffic from a diverse set of keywords?

asusplay

9:13 pm on Sept 1, 2013 (gmt 0)

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Yes, what my site has is a partial match

"Partial matches Some manual actions apply to specific pages, sections, or links
Unnatural links to your site�impacts links
Google has detected a pattern of unnatural artificial, deceptive, or manipulative links pointing to pages on this site. Some links may be outside of the webmaster�s control, so for this incident we are taking targeted action on the unnatural links instead of on the site�s ranking as a whole"

Used to get traffic from a wide range of keywords, especially long tail, mostly related to what the site is about.