Manual Action Email Notifications
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Is it me or you don't get (and not supposed to) email notifications when your site gets a manual action penalty? I mean I can see it in the Google Webmaster Tools interface, but I never get notifications in my Inbox. Is that how it works or I just need to set it up somehow?
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I have made the same experiences... Ashley is right: that`s the standard
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