Browsing: Spam

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates have an impact on which user-created pages are meant for Search, who is able to turn off ordering links on restaurant profiles, and just how much to read into a page-indexing report that appears to no longer update.

Google takes aim at a neway face consequences for content published by their users. It’s also a warning to SEOs and website owners who leverage these kinds of sites for links and AI search influence

Google has just completed its September 2026 spam update after its initial rollout last September 24.

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Welcome to the Pulse: This week’s updates include tips on reading spam update data, understanding how long crawling and recovery might take, exploring how Search Console totals multiple countries, insights on how Google handles fake author profiles, and an overview of how AI crawlers detect sitemaps.

Google has temporarily frozen its openibes as a ‘significant rise’ in AI-generated submissions. The move highlights an unintended consequence of AI proliferation – the flooding of security programs with automated, low-quality vulnerability reports that are overwhelming human reviewers and potentially compromising the integrity of critical cybersecurity infrastructure

Welcome to the Pulse: this week’s updates change how long a spam update may take to roll out, what Search Console reports for image searches, how an error page can keep pages out of search, and what two reports say about traffic from Google.

Google has started rolling out the September 2026 spam update, its fourth spam update of the year.

The operator of the Arnotts and Brown Thomas department stores has been ordered to pay €2,000 for unwanted spam marketing emails.

In the case of breaching DMA rules, Google can pay fines of up to 10% of their ​global annual turnover