Google Spam Update June 2024

Google Spam Update June 2024 in which Google has explained in detail about 16 different types of spam.

Google’s June spam Update says our spam policies will help to protect user and improve the quality of search result.

If you want to appear in Google web search result then you to write content that must comply with Google Search’s Overall policies.

These Policies are applied for all web search results, including results from Google’s own properties.

Google is detecting Policy violating content through automated system and human review, that can result in a manual action. and sites that are violating policies may rank lower in search engine result page and not appear in Search engine result page at all.

• Cloaking Google Spam Update June 2024
• Doorways
• Expired Domain Abuse
• Hacked Content
• Hidden Text or Link
• Keyword Stuffing
• Link Spam
• Machine-generated Traffic
• Malware or Malicious Behavior
• Misleading Functionality
• Scaled Content Abuse
• Scraped Content
• Sneaky Redirects
• Site Reputation Abuse
• Thin Affiliate Pages
• User-Generated Spam
• Conclusion

Cloaking Google Spam Update June 2024

Cloaking means the intention of manipulating search rankings to present something else to the search engine and something else to the user.

Example of Cloaking :

• Showing a restaurants page to search engine and while showing a page about sports to users.
• Only when you can put text or keyword into the page when the user agent that is requesting the page is search engine, not a human visitor.

You can not use cloaking after the Google Spam Update June 2024.

Doorways

June 2024 spam update says doorways are the sites or pages who want to rank in a specific search query. they lead user to intermediate pages and these pages are not as use full as the final destination.

Example of doorways include :

• Having multiple domain or websites with minor changes in the URL and home page to increase their reach for specific query.
• Having multiple domain names or pages targeted at a particular regions or cities that funnel users to one page.

You Can no longer use doorways pages or sites after the Google Spam Update June 2024.

Expired Domain Abuse

June 2024 spam update google, When an expired domain is purchased and repurposed primarily to manipulate search ranking by low quality content or hosting content that provide no value to user is called Expired domain Abuse.

Example of Expired Domain Abuse :

• A content previously used by a government agency and now used on an affiliated site.
• A non-profit medical charity site now used to sell commercial medical products.
• A former primary school website now used to casino related content.

You can no Longer use Expired Domain Abuse After Google Spam Update June 2024.

Hacked Content

Hacked Content is any content that is placed on a website without permission, due to vulnerability in a site securities. Hacked content gives poor search result to our user.

Hacked Content Includes : Code injection, Page Injection, Content Injections and Redirects.

After the Google Spam Update June 2024 You can not use Hacked Content on Your Website.

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Hidden Text and Links

Spam update June 2024 says, Hidden links and text is the technique of placing content on a page to manipulate search engines and that text or link human visitors can not be read easily.

Example of Hidden Text or Link that violate Google Policies:

• You can use white text on white background because in white background, white text is not visible.
• You can not hide text behind the image. text is not visible behind the image human visitor can not be read this.
• You can not hide link using a small character (For Example a hyphen in the last line of a content or paragraph)

There are so many web design element who are hiding link and text to improve user experience, these web design element will not violate google policies.

If You are using these techniques then according to Google Spam Update June 2024 you are violating google policies.

Keyword Stuffing

Google spam update June, Keyword Stuffing is the practice of filling the focus keyword and numbers in web page or content to manipulate or high ranking in search engine result page.

Example of keyword stuffing include:

• Lists of mobile or phone numbers without any substantial value.
• Blocks of text that list regions, states, cities on a web page and attempt to rank.
• Using One word or phrases again and again so that is sound unnatural.

In this Google Spam Update June 2024, Google Says if we found these focus keyword and number Unnaturally and out of context then we will not give you rank in search result.

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Link Spam

Google spam update June 2024 says that any link found for the purpose of manipulating rankings in Google search results is considered spam. This includes behavior that manipulates links to your site or outgoing links from your site.

Example of Link Spam :

• Buying or Selling Links purpose of rankings for money, goods and service.
• Excessive Link exchanges share link in two way linking(you will link me i will link you)
• writing low quality content for the purpose of manipulating rankings.
• If you are using services or automated programs to create links to your site it will violate google policies according to Google Spam Update June 2024.

Machine-Generated Traffic

Google is saying machine-generated traffic consumes resources and interferes with our ability to serve user to best service.

Example of Machine-generated Traffic:

Sending Google to automated queries.

Malware and Malicious Behaviors

June spam update Google is checking your website to see you are hosting malware or unwanted software or not, because these malware and unwanted software negatively affects the user experience.

According to Google Spam Update June 2024 you can not malware or unwanted Software.

Malware : A software or mobile application specifically designed to harm a computer, mobile device and user. malware is miss behaving that include install software without permission of user and also installing harmful software such as virus.

Unwanted Software : An executable file or mobile application that engages behavior unexpected and affects users browsing and computer experience.

Misleading Functionality

June 2024 spam update Google says create websites with high value content and useful functionality that will benefits users. some websites owner will think they can manipulate search rankings by intentionally creating websites with misleading functionality and services, they think we would be able to access some content but in reality they can not, after the Google Spam Update June 2024 they can not misleading functionality.

Example of Misleading functionality :

• Website with Fake generator that claims to provide app store but does not actually provide the credit.
• When a website claims to provide certain functionality (for example, countdown timer, PDF Merger) but they can not providing the claimed services rather than intentionally leads users to Deceptive ads.

Scaled Content Abuse

June 2024 spam update google, When websites generate many pages for the purpose of manipulating search results and not helping to users. This abusive practice is focused on creating large amount of low quality and unoriginal content that provides little to no value to users, no matter how they created. According to Google Spam Update June 2024 You can not use scaled content Abuse.

Example of Scaled Content Abuse :

• Website owner can not use AI Tools to generate Web pages without adding value to user.
• You can not stitching or combining content form other websites or webpages without adding value to user.

Scraped Content

Spam update June 2024, Scraped content is without useful services or content provided by you website may not provide value to user. Scraped content also include copyright infringement.

Example of Scraped Content :

• When a website copy others website content without adding any original content.
• When a website copy other website content and do minor changes and republish it

Sneaky Redirects

Sneaky redirects is showing user to a different URL than the one they requested and then user seeing unexpected content that does not fulfill their needs. Now website owner can not use sneaky redirects with use after the Google Spam Update June 2024.

Example of Sneaky Redirects :

• Showing user to a new address
• Showing search engines one type of content while redirecting users to something different.

Site Reputation Abuse :

When a third party pages are published with no involvement of first party, where the purpose is to manipulate search ranking to taking advantage of first party site rankings and provide no value to user.

Example of Site Reputation Abuse :

When a Medical website hosting a third party pages about “gambling” that’s designed primarily to manipulate search rankings, with no involvement from the medical site.

You can not do this after the Google Spam Update June 2024.

Thin Affiliate Pages

Thin affiliate pages are pages with product affiliate links on which the product description and review are copied from the original without any added value.

User-Generated Spam

Spammy content added to a website by users and website owner are unaware of the Spammy content.

Example of User-Generated Spam :

Spammy files uploaded by file hosting

Hosting Services that anyone can register on Spammy accounts.

Conclusion

We discussed about Google Spam Update June 2024 and all 16 updates are discussed. If you violate google any policies then google will not give you ranking on search engine result page.