Google's Spam Update Finished Rolling Out
Published on March 22, 2024
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So, the latest Spam Update ended on March 20, after taking just over 14 days.
As you probably know, there were two updates released at the same time.
The Spam Update is unlikely to have affected many of you, as it focused on scaled content abuse, expired domain abuse, and site reputation abuse.
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In other words, adding thousands of posts in a short space of time, or buying expired domains, and using a different niche on them, or paying to add content on high-authority, but irrelevant websites.
If you have been found in breach of any of these, you should see a manual penalty in your Google Search Console.
But the majority of us are not out of the woods yet, as the Core Update is likely to continue for a further two weeks.
If you have been hit by this, you won't see a manual penalty, just a drop in rankings and traffic.
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