Friday, October 9, 2026

Avoid costly site changes during a Google spam update by separating early ranking volatility from lasting losses and setting clear milestones for leadership.

Google's latest spam update has finished rolling out after nearly two weeks, taking longer than any of the three earlier spam updates it ran this year.

Google DeepMind proved one model can theoretically rank without a separate index. If it ships, visibility stops being a position and becomes inclusion or absence.

Jetpack announced the release of version 16.3, a major update that adds three new blocks, expands existing features, improves accessibility and security, and reorganizes settings to bring related controls together in the user interface. Three New Blocks That Add Useful Functiona. …

Anthropic's updated usage policy names seeding search and AI answer sources with misleading content, and drops automated publishing from its high-risk list.

I’m a consultant who usually does the strategy and hands off the execution. I recently started my own small agency and this is the first site where I’m doing the full SEO work myself, so I’d really value a sanity check. The site: a local healthcare-adjacent service business ... …

The rollout was complete as of October 8, 2026.

I work at an agency, and we’ve seen a HUGE increase in toxic backlinks being picked up by SEMRush starting on September 29th-ish and getting REALLY bad the last couple of days These are clearly spammy AI generated sites coming from the same source, and while I don’t think th... …