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Google: Rich Results Manual Actions Can Lead To Removal Of Rich Results & Broader Spam Penalties

In 2015 John said “Rich snippet themselves don’t give you ranking boosts. So it would’t kind of make sense to demote a site in rankings if they are doing something wrong with rich snippets. So essentially we just turn off the rich snippets until we are sure that we can trust them.”

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