September 2026 Spam Update
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- Aug 28, 2026
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fourth spam update this year and the first three only took a couple days, this one's saying up to two weeks so something's different under the hood. i'd hold off making any big changes yet, too early to tell what actually got hit. will keep an eye on AI overviews too, not just regular rankings, since that seems to be where more of the shakeups are lately
- Apr 30, 2009
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anyone seeing movement in local / map results or is it all regular organic so far?
- Sep 7, 2017
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Is this another update? Saw a thread about one weeks ago or so.
- Oct 10, 2023
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I think its still too early to judge this one. Google says the rollout may take up to 2 weeks and its still showing as active on the status dashboard.
I am more interested to see what happens after the rollout finishes before making any conclusions.
I am more interested to see what happens after the rollout finishes before making any conclusions.
- Sep 1, 2009
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Im monitoring rankings and indexing, but I would wait until the rollout is further along before making any conclusions.
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- Feb 7, 2009
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Yeah, I agree it’s worth waiting before making major changes. I’m also watching AI Overviews alongside rankings, as the rollout settles and we get a clearer picture of what’s actually moving.
I would wait until the spam update finishes rolling out before drawing any conclusions.
Good work
me too
- Feb 7, 2009
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yeah lets wait and check the changes
sounds good
Monkey$houlder
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- May 9, 2026
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Nothing on the sites with a proper link profile, one content only site down about 20 percent on day two. Same pattern as the June one. I would not change anything until the rollout ends, but if you want something to check, split GSC by page and see whether the pages that dropped have anything pointing at them. Mine never do.
That is what I am also wondering about but maybe we are a bit too early now because it takes time for an update to be implemented what i would like to see would be the results after the implementation of the update and not just its initial effects on the first few days.