Home / Google News / Google SEO / Google May Adjust Its Site Reputation Abuse Policy For EU News Sites May 8, 2026 - 7:41 am 0 — by Google proposed a number of changes to the EU in order to avoid fines from the European Union. One of those changes is around the site reputation abuse policy , which the EU watchdog said directly impacts a common and legitimate way for publishers to monetize their websites and content. I cannot find the specific proposal from Google, and I did ask Google for it, but Bloomberg , Reuters , TheNextWeb and others have some information. TheNextWeb wrote, "The remedies Google has offered have not been published in full. The proposals indicates that the company is willing to adjust how the site reputation abuse policy is applied to news domains, and to make the policy’s effect on publisher pages more transparent.…