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\n Search is a powerful tool. It helps people to find, share, and access an amazing wealth of content \n Below are some of the webspam insights we gathered in 2015, including trends we’ve seen, what \n We’re continuously improving our spam-fighting technology and working closely with webmasters and
\n regardless of how they connect or where they are located. As part of Google’s search quality team,
\n we work hard to ensure that searchers see high quality search results\u2014and not webspam. We fight
\n spam through a combination of algorithms and manual reviews to ensure that sites don’t rise in
\n search results through
\n deceptive or manipulative behavior<\/a>,
\n especially because those sites could harm or mislead users.\n<\/p>\n
\n we’re doing to fight spam and protect against those trends, and how we’re working with you to make
\n the web better.\n<\/p>\n2015 webspam trends<\/h2>\n
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\n year. Stay safe on the web and
\n take preventative measures<\/a>
\n to protect your content on the web.\n <\/li>\n
\n thin, low quality content<\/a>.
\n Such content contains little or no added value and is often scraped from other sites.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n2015 spam-fighting efforts<\/h2>\n
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\n for users. One of our algorithmic updates helped to
\n remove the amount of hacked spam<\/a>
\n in search results.\n <\/li>\n
\n notify them of
\n manual actions<\/a>
\n we took on their site and to help them identify the issues.\n <\/li>\n
\n reconsideration process<\/a>.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWorking with users and webmasters for a better web<\/h2>\n
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\n submitted by users around the world. After prioritizing the reports, we acted on 65% of them,
\n and considered 80% of those acted upon to be spam. Thanks to all who submitted reports and
\n contributed towards a cleaner web ecosystem!\n <\/li>\n
\n around the world in 17 languages. These are great opportunities for us to help webmasters with
\n their sites and for them to share helpful feedback with us as well.\n <\/li>\n
\n webmaster help forum<\/a>
\n continued to be an excellent source of webmaster support. Webmasters had tens of thousands of
\n questions answered, including over 35,000 by users designated as Webmaster Top Contributors.
\n Also, 56 Webmaster Top Contributors joined us at our
\n Top Contributor Summit<\/a> to
\n discuss how to provide users and webmasters with better support and tools. We’re grateful for
\n our awesome Top Contributors and their tremendous contributions!\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-f5daf61d8a64.png\")
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\n users to foster and support a high-quality web ecosystem. (In fact, fighting webspam is one of the
\n many ways we
\n maintain search quality at Google<\/a>.)
\n Thanks for helping to keep spammers away so users can continue accessing great content in Google
\n Search.<\/p>\n