Google Releases October 2023 Spam Update-SEO

Google announced an update to its spam detection systems that will improve coverage in many languages and spam types.

Highlights

• Google released the October 2023 Spam Update.
• The update improves the spam detection system coverage in many languages and spam types.
• The update will take several weeks to roll out.

Google announced the October 2023 Spam Update on its Google Search Central account on X today. It will take a few weeks for the Spam update to fully roll out. Previous Google algorithm updates usually have taken around two weeks to complete.

“We’re releasing an update to our spam detections systems today that will improve our coverage in many languages and spam types,” Google Search Console posted on X. “We’ll post in the Google Search Status Dashboard when the rollout is complete: https://status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1u87FJnkP6W2GwMi/history“.

Details of the October 2023 Spam Update in the Google Search Central Blog include:

• The purpose of this Spam Update is to clean up several types of spam that Google’s community members reported in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages.
• A reduction in visible spam in search results is expected, particularly when it comes to cloaking, hacked, auto-generated, and scraped spam.
• The update will take a few weeks to roll out.
• Sites that see a change after the Spam Update should review Google’s spam policies.
• Feedback can be sent to Google through the spam report form.

See a history of all Google algorithm updates here.

Summary

Google announced the October 2023 Spam Update which aims to improve its spam detection systems that will improve coverage in many languages and spam types. It will take several weeks to roll out. An update will be posted on the Google Search Status Dashboard when the Spam Update rollout is complete.