This week, we had Google officially release another core update, the October 2023 core update. Also, a day before Google started to roll out the October 2023 spam update. We also had an unconfirmed Google algorithm update start on October 1st. Last night, Google also had indexing or serving issues with new content. Google teased […]
Google has released a new spam update, the October 2023 spam update. This update goes after cloaking, hacked, auto-generated, and scraped spam. But those sites written in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages should see this more than maybe those in English languages. This update will take a few weeks to roll out. […]
This week, we continue to track the Google August 2023 core update, where we saw volatility last weekend and mid-week. Google Search Generative Experience gained links, expanded to India and Japan, added listen features, and shared some early feedback. Google said core updates do not impact the autocomplete search suggestions. Google Search Console added News […]
Google has posted a new policy saying AI-generated reviews are against its policies, disallowed and considered spam. If you find such content, Google said you must mark it as spam in your feed with the is_spam attribute. Google posted the update over here, it reads, “Automated Content: We don’t allow reviews that are primarily generated […]
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Every year Google releases its web spam report showing how much better the search company got at fighting search spam. This year is no different but here, Google is showing how successful SpamBrain was at making big strides in fighting search spam. Here are some high level numbers that Google shared in its 2022 report: […]
It looks like review spammers are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate fake reviews. These reviews are being posted in Google Business Profile local listings and causing a headache for small businesses. I spotted this via the Local Search Forum but it was also posted on the Review Fraud website recently as well. […]
Last November Google introduced a new catchall search spam policy named policy circumvention. That spam policy was listed to be able to take action on sites that bypass the other Google spam policies through other means. Well today, Google has updated that spam policy to simplify the wording based on user feedback of the policy. […]
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A few months ago it was brought to our attention that spam emails containing inappropriate content are being sent out and that it appears they are coming from a Buffer-owned domain (buffermail.com). The emails are not coming from Buffer or from buffermail. In this post, we’ll do our best to explain what has been happening […]