Tag Archives: Spam

Google March Core & Spam Updates, Handbook Actions, Spam Insurance policies, Bing Webmaster Tools, Deep Search, Paid Search & Extra

For the original iTunes version, click here. It was a busy week between Google releasing the Google March 2024 core update, which is supposed to be one of the largest core updates Google has ever released. Google also released a March 2024 spam update. Google updates a number of its spam policies while dishing out […]

Most Really feel Google’s March Core & Spam Updates Will not Scale back Low-High quality Search Outcomes

I ran a poll asking my X/Twitter followers if they think the new Google March core and spam updates will reduce unhelpful content from showing up in the search results by 40%? About 80% of the 1,385 votes said no, they don’t think it will reduce the low-quality, unhelpful content from showing up in the […]

Google Search Unleashes Manual Actions Galore After Spam Coverage Updates

Google has unleashed tons of manual actions, search ranking penalties you can see within Google Search Console, after it released its search spam policy updates on Tuesday. The manual actions seemed to mostly have been distributed yesterday, Wednesday, March 6th, a day after Google announced the new spam policy changes. As a reminder, Google has […]

Google New Years Replace, Search Console Function Requests, Google Groups Spam, Decay Of Search & Extra

Right before the New Year, the Google search results volatility spiked big time. I posted the Google webmaster report for January 2024 this week. I published a big list of feature requests for Google Search Console. Google Groups will stop posting Usenet content to combat spam, which may clear up some spam in Google Search. […]

Google Updates Spam Insurance policies & Rating Information With Non-Consensual Specific Imagery Pointers

Google has documented how it Google handles sites with a high proportion of non-consensual explicit imagery. Google updated its spam policies and the Google ranking systems guide with links to this help document explaining the topic. This is what changed: Before it wrote: If we process a high volume of personal information removals involving a […]

Google Actively Working On Fixing Obituary Search Spam

Google is actively working on fixing the problem it was with showing too much spam for obituary-related queries. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said “it’s something we’re actively looking at ways to improve.” This was in response to a complaint by Matthew Brown who wrote, “Searching for obituary is both depressing and also a comprehensive […]

Core & Spam Updates, SGE Lite, Cellular First Indexing & Extra

Here is the big Google webmaster report for November 2023 and it is a big one. We had three confirmed updates; the November 2023 core update and a couple weeks later the October 2023 core update and also the October 2023 spam update. And there was a bug with the core update that led to […]

Google October 2023 Spam Update Performed Rolling Out

Google has finished rolling out the Google October 2023 Spam Update that started 15 days and 12 hours ago. That update began on October 4th at 12:52 pm ET and is now completed this morning, October 20, 2023, at 1:15 am ET. This update overlapped with the Google October 2023 core update that also completed […]

Google Heated Core Replace Accomplished, Spam Replace Accomplished, Twitter/X Blocks Bing, Paywalled Content material, search engine optimization, PPC, Ads & Local Search

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we covered that the Google October 2023 core update is done rolling out; it was a super and incredibly heated core update. Google also finished rolling out the spam update this morning, and the overlap is upsetting. X/Twitter is now blocking Bing Search, Bingbot, from crawling. […]

Google Search Volatility Throughout Core Replace & Spam Replace Rollout

We are now a few days into the two October Google Search algorithm updates, the October 2023 spam update and the October 2023 core update and the Google search results are getting heated. The tracking tools are finally all showing large volatility and the chatter has been heated with both of these updates. Yesterday we […]