About this episode

This episode discusses a new Google Search spam penalty for back button hijacking and updates to spam reporting and Google Ads AI.

This week we covered a new Google Search spam penalty for back button hijacking. Google also updated its spam report, it may now be used for manual actions. Google is aware of self-serving listicles and warns not to...

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