Crackdown on spam links, which continue to pose a problem for the quality of search results: the “spam link update” started on July 26 by Google, an algorithmic update that will allow the search engine to identify and cancel spam on links more effectively and widely, in multiple languages, hitting with “penalties” ranking sites that participate in this phenomenon and do not follow best practices in relation to monetization with affiliate links or sponsored content and guest posts.
The Google spam link update
Giving out the news of the launch of this new algorithm – which fits into a pretty intense picture of movements on the search engine of recent months, with two different core updates and other relevant interventions – is Duy Nguyen, Google Search Quality Analyst, which explains that the implementation of the spam link update link will go on for about two weeks and affects “more languages”. In general, it reads in the article, the effectiveness of spam links has been greatly reduced in the last two decades, thanks to constant improvements in Google’s systems for the classific