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First off, it’s important to mention that a website can be penalized by Google in two different ways—manual action or algorithmic update. A manual penalty means a human employee at Google physically reviewed your website and issued a penalty. An algorithmic penalty happens when your site gets caught in the cross hairs of an algorithm update like Panda (which focused mainly on content) or Penguin (which targeted web spam) designed to clean up the SERPs.