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New Google Spam Update Released Today

DianeScorpio

Published on October 20, 2022

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New Google Spam Update Released Today

So, Google has released a new update today that is specifically targeting sites that break their spam policies.

If you see any change in your ranking over the next couple of weeks or so, you may need to check if your site falls under the following potential violations.

I am simply going to list what Google is looking for, but without going into detail.

Please click the link at the end of the post to see precisely what Google says.

Cloaking

Doorways

Hacked Content

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Hidden Text and Links

Keyword Stuffing

Link Spam

Machine-Generated Traffic

Malware and Malicious Behaviors

Misleading Functionality

Scraped Content

Sneaky Redirects

Spammy Automatically-Generated Content

Thin Affiliate Pages

User-Generated Spam

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