A Google Spam Update That Took Fourteen Days: Search and Social Update, 9 October 2026
Google's September spam update took fourteen days to finish instead of the usual two, and it is now confirmed done. Manual penalties…
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Google Published Its Own Clock: How Long Search Actually Takes
Google showed its internal timings this week. A new page takes about 20 hours to find, a known page waits roughly 30…
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September 2026 in Review: What Actually Changed in Search and Social
September was the month the free routes started closing. Facebook capped free business pages at two link posts a month, a WordPress…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 21 to 25 September 2026
A WordPress patch was attacked in five hours and 350,000 sites are still unprotected. Facebook is capping free pages at two link…
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Google’s Spam Update Will Take Two Weeks: Your Friday Brief
Google's September 2026 spam update began rolling out on Thursday with a warning that it may take two weeks, four times longer…
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August 2026 in Review: What Actually Changed in Search and Social
In August a bot setting removed an entire government website from Google, and on 15 September that setting becomes the default for…
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The Show More Button Is Disappearing: Search and Social Update, 31 August 2026
Google has confirmed that AI Overviews now expand into full answers for some searches, removing the Show more button and pushing your…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 16 to 21 August 2026
A 41 day experiment found Googlebot reaching only 2 percent of pages linked by JavaScript, and the AI crawlers found almost none.…
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