Google Spam Update - August 2026 Has Arrived

Good update. The August 2026 Spam Update has now finished rolling out globally, so it’s a good time to compare Search Console data before and after the update and look for any ranking or traffic changes.
 
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IvanRF said:
Can I share links as freely as you do, or is that a privilege reserved for certain members of the forum?
Last time I shared a useful link to a detailed guide, my reply was removed by a forum moderator, and I received a warning for violating the forum rules. But I still don’t understand - are these rules applied selectively?
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Because it is an authoritative source like Google under relevant thread as important as an Algo update.
 
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A month after this update rolled out, now the smoke has cleared, has any 'wisdom' emerged?
I had a very nice site slaughtered, and the only links I've built for it this year are decidedly not spammy. Also, I read this on seoroundtable
  • Does Not Target: This update does not target link spam, it does not target every single spam policy but Google did not mention any changes with this update.
So I'm at a loss to figure out this one. The site has been up for 11 years. The content is original and obviously human written. And the foreign editions were actually translated by humans using a premium translation service.

I can guess as well as anyone out there, but has anyone reading this actually had a similar problem and solved it in a particular way that they'd care to share? Thanks in advance, if so.
 
farvana said:
A month after this update rolled out, now the smoke has cleared, has any 'wisdom' emerged?
I had a very nice site slaughtered, and the only links I've built for it this year are decidedly not spammy. Also, I read this on seoroundtable
  • Does Not Target: This update does not target link spam, it does not target every single spam policy but Google did not mention any changes with this update.
So I'm at a loss to figure out this one. The site has been up for 11 years. The content is original and obviously human written. And the foreign editions were actually translated by humans using a premium translation service.

I can guess as well as anyone out there, but has anyone reading this actually had a similar problem and solved it in a particular way that they'd care to share? Thanks in advance, if so.
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My site got wrecked too, It seems like all the spam sites got promoted. Google let every spam site take my keywords. I guess the spam update means they let spam win.
 
farvana said:
A month after this update rolled out, now the smoke has cleared, has any 'wisdom' emerged?
I had a very nice site slaughtered, and the only links I've built for it this year are decidedly not spammy. Also, I read this on seoroundtable
  • Does Not Target: This update does not target link spam, it does not target every single spam policy but Google did not mention any changes with this update.
So I'm at a loss to figure out this one. The site has been up for 11 years. The content is original and obviously human written. And the foreign editions were actually translated by humans using a premium translation service.

I can guess as well as anyone out there, but has anyone reading this actually had a similar problem and solved it in a particular way that they'd care to share? Thanks in advance, if so.
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Do you find a solution for the last updates? i have lost 90% google traffic ...
 
agencypx said:
Do you find a solution for the last updates? i have lost 90% google traffic ...
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Maybe … checking the site's links in GWT, I noticed that Google had indexed some of my recent guest posts and added them as site links but had not indexed others. The guest posts which had not been indexed were posts that had spammy anchors (buy widgets etc). I used very few of those, but the post with them did not get indexed. So I disavowed about eight of those posts about a month ago, and now I see my site creeping back into Google SERPs again. So maybe that's the answer. I read somewhere that it wasn't a link spam issue. So who knows? But this seems to be working for me.
 
farvana said:
Maybe … checking the site's links in GWT, I noticed that Google had indexed some of my recent guest posts and had not indexed others. The guest posts which had not been indexed were posts that had spammy anchors (buy widgets etc). I used very few of those, but the post with them did not get indexed. So I disavowed about eight of those posts about a month ago, and now I see my site creeping back into Google SERPs again. So maybe that's the answer. I read somewhere that it wasn't a link spam issue. So who knows? But this seems to be working for me.
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Can you send my a pn? I would like to understand which kind of links do you mean. My site have a lot of amz links. maybe this is also "spam" for google right now?
 
Can anyone suggest what kind of impact we might see because of the update? There are dip in impression on some of my keywords how do I check is it because of google update or keyword trend?
 
pree said:
Can anyone suggest what kind of impact we might see because of the update? There are dip in impression on some of my keywords how do I check is it because of google update or keyword trend?
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The impact you can see is ranking down of fully removal of your website from search engine. If you see the drop in impressions (during the update rolling out time), then your website may have violated google's spam policy.
 
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