John Mueller from Google posted a short, less than two minute video, for the #AskGoogleWebmasters series on YouTube around dealing with webspam manual actions from Google. In short he said if you are not sure what to do with a webspam manual action, then go to the forums.

When you go to the forums make sure to be honest, detailed and explain everything without hiding stuff from those you are asking for help from. Then when you get the advice, do not take it personally, it might be harsh but that is okay.

After you take in the feedback, make the necessary changes to your site and submit a reconsideration request. Those requests should be honest, truthful and straight to the point. John said you can even include a link to the forum thread where you asked for help.

Here is the video:

Here is the transcript:

Nothing really new but nice how John jammed this into less than two-minutes.

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