Google June 2026 spam update done rolling out
This spam update took two full days to roll out.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Search every headline we hold across all 46 sources — including the UX, conversion and marketing feeds that are deliberately kept off the front page. Combine words in any order, quote a phrase for an exact match, or prefix a word with a minus sign to exclude it.
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This spam update took two full days to roll out.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →This update should only take a few days to roll out.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →If you work in digital marketing your inbox is likely to be littered with news on the latest AI visibility trackers. With so many solutions on the market it can leave you with a difficult decision,…
Read on Sistrix →There’s a lot of noise when it comes to AI search, visibility, how it’s…
Read on Oncrawl →Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools introduces four expanded AI performance capabilites in preview: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare, enhancing publishers' understanding of AI-generated…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Bing Search Blog →Your content can rank on the first page of Google and still never be cited or mentioned by LLMs. This makes sense once you understand query fan-out, a background process AI systems use to build…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Backlinko →Your traditional rankings look stable. Your franchise location pages still hold position for core local service queries. And yet organic […]
Read on Onely →Your location pages rank on page one. Your Google Business Profiles are claimed and optimized. And yet, when a renter […]
Read on Onely →You have likely been here before. You hired a content-focused SEO agency, received a tidy blog calendar and a monthly […]
Read on Onely →The second Google core update of 2026 was a big one, causing a lot of search ranking volatility over the rollout.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Everyone in SEO knows Google Core Updates: overnight, the visibility of domains shifts. Our data now shows the same pattern in ChatGPT. On May 23, 2026, the switch from GPT-5 mini to GPT-5.5 shifted…
Read on Sistrix →Your monthly roundup of search industry news, brought to you by the Lumar team.
Read on Lumar →SEO for technology companies is a specialized discipline focused on making JavaScript-heavy product sites, documentation, and complex software offerings fully […]
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Onely →The May 2026 Core Update was announced on 21st May 2026, following the March Core Update. It was completed on the 2nd June. Data, analysis, examples and rankings for affected domains are shown below…
Read on Sistrix →Marks and Spencer, UK fashion and food chain, are beating their business partner Ocado at creating search visibility for the same food products. M&S aren’t selling those products but it feels like…
Read on Sistrix →In an AI-powered search world, visibility is responsibility. Bing is rethinking search with safety by design at its core—combining risk detection, trusted content prioritization, and user controls to…
Read on Bing Search Blog →A Google spam update targets manipulative content, links, and behaviors that violate Search Essentials. Learn how spam updates work, how to tell if you were hit, and how to recover.
Ranking & Algorithms Policy & Penalties
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Search indexing was built to help humans decide what to read. Grounding is being built to help AI systems decide what to say and simultaneously helping people to verify, refine, or challenge what the…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing AI Search & Visibility
Read on Bing Search Blog →A source cited in an AI response today may well have disappeared by next week. Our analysis of 82,619 prompts over 17 weeks shows that Google replaces 56% of sources in AI-generated responses every…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Sistrix →Nearly 80% of top results shifted as Google’s latest update hit aggregators and boosted brands, official sites, and data-rich sources.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Ranking & Algorithms Local SEO
Read on Sterling Sky →Duplicate content quietly drains your search visibility. When multiple versions of a page blur signals and dilute authority, search engines may surface outdated or unintended URLs. Learn how…
Ranking & Algorithms Content & Quality
Read on Bing Webmaster Blog →AI search is redefining how content is discovered and ranked, but sitemaps still matter. When paired with IndexNow, they provide the structure and speed search engines need to keep your content…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
Read on Bing Webmaster Blog →Search is evolving and so has Bing Webmaster Tools. With expanded search data, crawl diagnostics, indexing insights, keyword performance, URL inspection, and IndexNow integration, you’ll have the…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
Read on Bing Webmaster Blog →At Microsoft Advertising Accelerate, Fabrice Canel unveiled game-changing strategies for ranking in AI search. Get highlights on the most impactful ideas and learn how AI is revolutionizing search…
Ranking & Algorithms Paid Search
Read on Bing Webmaster Blog →In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings. That’s just one of many insights…
Ranking & Algorithms SERP Features
Read on Detailed →Welcome to Detailed Q4: Our fourth quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going through…
Read on Detailed →Welcome to Detailed Q3: Our third quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going through…
Read on Detailed →– Updated the top 20 forums table to compare July vs February – Updated Reddit traffic chart for the last two years – Ran all numbers again for July compared to February – Updated the stats for how…
Read on Detailed →Welcome to Detailed Q2: Our second-ever quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going…
Read on Detailed →– Documented how Reddit are now dominating results in October – Updated the number of first-place rankings the top 100 domains achieved – Three digital goliaths have 36 sites in the top 100 in…
Read on Detailed →I recently analyzed 250,000 English-language search results, primarily to answer a specific question: Do sites owned by large media companies attain more first-place rankings than independent…
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