Manual Webspam Error. Same Penalty on all sites on Webmaster Tools account.

[ndroidgalaxy]

My URL is: www.ebuzznet.comToday when i checked webmaster tools under manual spam section. I got Manual spam and reason was Thin content with little or no added value. Then I checked other sites from same webmaster tools account, there are 11 sites, all of them received same manual action. I never received any mail, no notification on site messages section regarding this manual action. I just need confirmation whether it is something to do with any error in webmaster tools or all of the sites really received manual spam actions.Most of the article on sites are above 500 words, quality content (no spun or copied).Looking for suggestions, answers

[ndroidgalaxy]

As per your example above.. I have enabled auto syndication to all my social network.. so only excerpt will syndicate along with linkback to original content..if you open any of those 50 links it will be facebook post. So sharing content is not against webmaster guidelines..

Already started editing and rewriting of post... It will take  more than a week..

[ndroidgalaxy]

This is very strange.. they penalized this page with no content too http://ivishalverma.blogspot.com/: Thin content... another strange thing is I have added 4 of my sites to another webmaster account with different mail id. same 4 sites on both account. I am owner on both accounts. They penalized all blogs there too...  totally they penalized two webmaster account. with around 18 sites (5 blogspot).

[Carson-Ward]

I Googled text from a few of your articles, and found tons of duplicates. See, for example, this search. Are you actually writing your own content, or is this sourced from someone else? I also noticed a lot of non-standard and incorrect grammar across multiple articles, which isn't going to help in a panda-type penalty.

Google is getting better at measuring users' reactions to your content, and they've even begun to dig into factors that cause users to leave a page and seek another result. Whether or not Google can  determine the quality of language, users can, and they don't react well to language that doesn't flow.

Here's what I'd do:

• Make sure your content is unique. If you're sourcing it, make sure it hasn't been republished in part or in full.
• Ensure your content is written by someone who can really engage the audience and sound like an expert writing in English (or whatever your sites' languages are)
• Really try to hook the user right away. Make the posts as visual as possible, avoid large first paragraphs, and make sure the user knows why they should care right away. You need to elicit an emotion early on in your audience: fear, anger, amusement, interest, surprise, etc.
• Use tags sparingly, and only when it makes sense. Avoid tags with only one tagged post.
• Credibility: add dates and authors to articles backed by full bios.

The way to get out of this penalty is to really add value on each of your pages.

[WilliamKammer]

This is definitely a unique situation in my experience, so keep that in mind, but I'd think about (after making sure nothing on- or off-page could have caused the manual action) submitting 11 reconsideration requests at the same time, telling them everything you looked into, the tests, and the situation with your entire account getting manual actions. See how they respond to that.

[ndroidgalaxy]

manual actions is one or two sites seems legit..but all sites listed on webmaster tools account looks suspicious... They even penalized a new blogspot site with no content at all... I just created a new blogspot for testing.. and there was no article posted... It is Blank... but received thin content warning.....

[WilliamKammer]

I do see a red flag right away in the page source. When I viewed the page source code I saw some spammy looking links right before the footer. This could be an indication of a hack. If all of your websites in webmasters are on the same server, or your login for all of them is the same, or something similar, it's possible you had all your sites hacked. If you put those links there, then remove them.

Manual action messages are very vague, so sometimes it takes some digging to identify the root of the problem. The above is an idea of where to begin.