The August 2026 Spam Update: What Google Published
Google’s August 2026 spam update began on 18 August and ran 2 days 16 hours. The dashboard entry was the entire announcement, which changes how you diagnose it.
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The September 2026 Spam Update: What’s Confirmed So Far
Google released a spam update on 24 September 2026 with a two-week rollout window, longer than any spam update this year. Here’s what’s confirmed and what isn’t yet.
Google Stopped Sending Users to Its AMP Cache
On 1 July 2026 Google removed AMP viewer, AMP Cache and signed exchange from its docs and began sending users straight to publisher AMP pages. What to do now.
Core Web Vitals for WooCommerce: Where Checkout Flows Fail INP
INP replaced FID in 2024, and WooCommerce checkouts are where it gets exposed — validation, shipping recalcs, and payment iframes all fight for the same thread.
Backlinks vs AI Citations: Which One Actually Predicts Traffic
Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands and found mentions beat backlinks three-to-one for AI Overview visibility. Link building isn’t dead, just not the whole story.
WordPress Multisite and SEO: The Considerations Most Guides Skip
Multisite guides cover subdomains versus subdirectories and stop there. The sitemap and Search Console gaps are where networks actually lose ground.
Expired Domain Abuse: Google’s Policy and How It Gets Enforced
Google’s expired domain abuse policy has concrete examples and a real timeline — and enforcement appears to hinge on something more detectable than intent.
The Evolution of SERP Features: What’s Replaced the Ten Blue Links
From featured snippets to AI Mode, the search results page has quietly stopped being ten blue links. The zero-click data shows exactly how far that’s gone.
Search Console’s Insights Report: What It Actually Tells You
Insights isn’t a smaller version of the Performance report. It’s changed shape twice already, and now sits next to a very different new AI report.
Sitemap Best Practices for Large WordPress Sites
Past 50,000 URLs, sitemap strategy stops being about hitting limits and starts being about what you’re actually vouching for Google to index.