Google is rolling out a new search ranking algorithm update targeting the more spammy side of the search results.
The company is calling this update the “October 2022 spam update.” It should take about a week to fully roll out and be noticed in the search results.
Google said this update is global and affects all languages.
What are spam updates. Google wrote:
The announcement. Google announced this on Twitter saying “Today we released the October 2022 spam update.”
Previous updates. Before this, the most recent confirmed Google spam update was the November 2021 spam update. Google also released a two-part Spam Update – on June 23 and June 28 in 2021, as well as the July 2021 link spam update.
Why we care. If you notice large ranking or traffic changes from your organic Google search results, you may have been hit by this spam update. Spam updates target specific guideline violations. Google did not say if this was links, content or other forms of spam, but rather just said it is spam-related in general.
