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August 21, 2026

Google August 2026 Spam Update: Evidence Before Edits

Google's August 2026 spam update finished after 2 days, 16 hours. Preserve the baseline, separate manual actions, and audit the affected pattern.

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June 25, 2026Video

Google June 2026 Spam Update: What SEOs Should Check Now

Google's June 2026 spam update is rolling out globally. Here is what changed, what not to overclaim, and the Search Console checks to run...

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May 3, 2026

Google Is Going After SEO Prompt Injection and Low-Quality Listicles

Google’s Security Blog analysis of public-web prompt injections and its comments about low-quality listicles point to the same AI search problem: pages that try...

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April 16, 2026

The AI Slop Loop, Google's New Spam Weapons, and DSA's Final Days

How AI hallucinations become cited 'facts' within 24 hours. Plus: Google spam reports now trigger manual actions, and Dynamic Search Ads sunset in September...

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April 14, 2026

Google's Back Button Hijacking Spam Policy and the 815K-Page ChatGPT Citation Study

Google adds back button hijacking to spam policies with a June 15 enforcement deadline. Plus: Air Ops' 815,000-page study reveals shorter content wins Chat...

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April 14, 2026Video

March 2026 Core Update Aftermath, Ask Maps Revolution, and the 11-Month GSC Bug

Deep analysis of the March 2026 core update winners and losers, Google's Ask Maps Gemini-powered local search, the 11-month GSC impressions bug, Googlebot's 2...

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April 13, 2026Video

Googlebot's 2MB Cutoff, the Agentic Commerce Arms Race, and Who Won the March Core Update

Deep analysis: Googlebot's newly enforced 2 MB crawl limit silently truncates pages, Google and Open AI race to own AI checkout, and winners emerge...

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April 12, 2026

April 2026: Core Update Aftermath, the GSC Impressions Bug, and Why LLM Bots Now Out-Crawl Googlebot

Deep analysis of Google's March 2026 core update, the 10-month Search Console impressions bug, LLM bot crawl dominance, and how AI Overviews are reshaping...

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December 15, 2022

SEO News: June and July 2020

A structured recap of Google Search Console Insights, the June 2020 core update, comment indexing, Claim Review schema, and internal linking guidance.

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