They both determine how websites rank but it's important to understand the differences before they can be influenced in a meaningful way. The SEO industry often refers to “Google algorithmic penalties ...

With Google manual actions, real people at Google apply penalties to websites that are not complying with Google’s Webmaster guidelines. Google launched a manual actions viewer in Google Search ...

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread that tracks Google activity has webmasters and SEOs asking if there are algorithmic updates going on, either Panda or Penguin. I can say, Google has not told us about ...

There has always been a lot of confusion amongst none experienced SEOs about the difference between a manual and algorithmic action by Google. And Google is aware of that and promises to make changes ...