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View Manual Webspam Actions in Webmaster Tools

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From  Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: View manual webspam actions in Webmaster Tools : Webmaster level: All We strive to keep spam out of our users’ search results. This includes both improving our webspam algorithms as well as taking manual action for violations of Google's quality guidelines. In case you have noticed, there is new link under Search Traffic  called Manual Actions . If you click on it, and find message stating "No manual webspam actions found." then congrats, you have done everything right. A recent analysis of Google index showed that well under 2% of domains are manually removed for webspam. If you are one of the few unlucky who do have manual spam action, you probably have message in your inbox (and Google keeps sending these until you take appropriate actions). Here’s what it would look like if Google had taken manual action on a specific section of a site for "User-generated spam": According to Google, Once you’ve ...