What's the most common warning sign that a website is at risk of a Google manual action?

Google Search Console gives no clear-cut warning of an impending manual action. Kaspar Szymanski, Senior Director at SearchBrothers and former senior member of Google's Search team with hands-on webspam enforcement experience, now helps businesses recover from Google penalties. He explains why increased crawler activity in specific site sections is the only potential warning sign, and why it produces many false positives. He also covers how to separate real risk from benign causes such as new external references, internal linking changes, and trending query demand.

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