Tag Archives: Spam

Google Maps 2021 Spam Efforts Embrace 100 Million Fraudulent & Abusive Blocks

Google announced its 2021 Google Maps and Google Business Profile spam fighting efforts, like it did for the 2020 year. Google said it blocked more than 100 million Business Profile edits and protected over 100 thousand businesses from suspicious activity and abuse attempts. Google has been trying hard to portray a better image for its […]

Google Local Maps Spam Cleanup or Chaos?

Over the past week a lot of local SEOs have been talking about the big change in local results. It could be related to a Update of Google’s local search algorithm (Google hasn’t confirmed it yet) or it could be anti-spam efforts. But I see complaints that there is too much local spam now and […]

Google Spam Replace rollout accomplished in November

It took Google about eight days for the Spam update in November, the rollout began on November 3rd. This update targeted content spam measures that violated Google’s webmaster guidelines. It seemed to have a more significant update than the previous spam updates. Here is Google’s announcement of the rollout and its completion: This update is […]

Google November Spam Replace Accomplished, Google Testing IndexNow, Googlebot IP Addresses, and Extra

I’ll start by announcing the winners of the Squid Game contest I had last week. Google completed the rollout for the November spam update after 8 days. This November Google spam update seems big, at least it has some legs. Some suggest that this update also targets camouflaged spam content with inserted links. Google said […]

Google November Spam Update Goes After Camouflaged Spam Content material With Hyperlinks Injected?

Last week, Google announced the launch of the Spam update in November, which Google identified as targeted types of content spam. Glenn Gabe said it might have deliberately cloaked content spam with links in that camouflaged content. Glenn said he spotted at least (maybe more) two websites that saw huge drops in indexing after that […]

Google is hiring a spam fighter

Google posted as new job posting Become a spam fighter in the company. The job title is Search Quality Analyst and it appears to be a personal position at GooglePlex in Mountain View, California. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, posted this on Twitter and wrote, “Are you looking for an exciting job fighting spam […]

November Google Spam Update, Desktop Page Experience, Penguin Algorithm, Google Firm Profiles, Google Ads, and extra

It turned out to be a busy week as we have a confirmed update to the Google search algorithm – the November spam update that is being rolled out. I also published my monthly Google Webmaster Report. Google has announced that the Page Experience Update for the desktop will be rolled out from February 2022 […]

Forms of Spam And What to Do About It

Image probably the most annoying, intrusive digital spam you’ve encountered. In all probability, you’re considering of undesirable emails. These might be irritating, however they’re positively not the one forms of spam. In actuality, spam can strike each digital presence possible, starting from blogs to social media. And sure, it stays an enormous concern for electronic […]