{"id":25065,"date":"2019-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/this-year-in-search-spam-webspam-report-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:00:00","slug":"this-year-in-search-spam-webspam-report-2018","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/this-year-in-search-spam-webspam-report-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"This year in Search Spam &#8211; Webspam report 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Thursday, March 21, 2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attempt-right\" alt=\"Googlebot announcing the Webspam Report 2018\" height=\"228\"\n     src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-b73cc39fd256.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n  Google aims to provide the highest quality results for any search. As part of this, we take<br \/>\n  action to prevent what we call &#8220;webspam&#8221; from degrading the search experience, content and<br \/>\n  behaviors that violate our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/spam-policies\/\">webmaster guidelines<\/a>. Our<br \/>\n  efforts help ensure that well under 1 percent of results visited by users are for spammy pages.<br \/>\n  Here&#8217;s more about how we fought webspam in 2018.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"google-webspam-trends-and-how-we-fought-webspam-in-2018\" tabindex=\"-1\">Google webspam trends and how we fought webspam in 2018<\/h2>\n<p>Of the types of spam we fought in 2018, three continue to stand out:<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><u>Spam on hacked websites:<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n  We <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/how-we-fought-webspam-webspam-report-2017\/\">reported in 2017<\/a><br \/>\n  that we had seen a substantial reduction of spam from hacked websites in search results. This<br \/>\n  trend continued in 2018, with faster discovery of hacked web pages before they affect search<br \/>\n  results or put someone in harm&#8217;s way. While we reduced how spam on hacked sites affects search,<br \/>\n  hacked websites remain a major security problem affecting the safety of the web. Even though we<br \/>\n  can&#8217;t prevent a website hack from happening, we&#8217;re committed to helping webmasters whose<br \/>\n  websites have been compromised by offering resources to<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/fundamentals\/security\/hacked\" class=\"external-link\">help them recover from a hacked website<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><u>User-generated spam:<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n  A particular type of spam known as User-generated spam has been a continued focus for us.<br \/>\n  User-generated spam includes spammy posts on forums, as well as spammy accounts on blogs<br \/>\n  and platforms, none of which are meant to be consumed by human beings, and all of which disrupt<br \/>\n  conversations while adding no value to users. In 2018, we were able to reduce the impact on<br \/>\n  search users from this type of spam by more than 80%. While we can&#8217;t prevent websites from<br \/>\n  being exploited, we do want to make it easier for website owners to learn how to protect<br \/>\n  themselves, which is why we provide resources on<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/preventing-spam-abuse\/\">how to prevent abuse of your site&#8217;s public areas.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><u>Link spam:<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n  We continued to protect the value of authoritative and relevant links as an important ranking<br \/>\n  ignal for Search. We continued to deal swiftly with egregious link spam, and made a number of<br \/>\n  bad linking practices less effective for manipulating ranking. Above all, we continued to<br \/>\n  engage with webmasters and SEOs to chip away at the many myths that have emerged over the years<br \/>\n  relating to linking practices. We continued to remind website owners that if you simply stay away<br \/>\n  from <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/spam-policies\/#link-spam\">building links<\/a><br \/>\n  mainly as an attempt to rank better and focus on creating great content, you should not have to<br \/>\n  worry about any of the myths or realities. We think that one of the best ways of fighting spam<br \/>\n  of all types is by encouraging website owners to just create great quality content. Resources such<br \/>\n  as the <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/seo-starter-guide\/\">SEO starter-guide<\/a><br \/>\n  highlight best practices and bust some common myths and misconceptions related to what it takes<br \/>\n  to appear well in Google Search results.<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">Reporting link spam<\/a> is also a great way<br \/>\n  to assist us in fighting against this type of abuse and to help preserve fairness in Search<br \/>\n  ranking.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"working-with-users,-webmasters-and-developers-for-a-better-web\" tabindex=\"-1\">Working with users, webmasters and developers for a better web<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Everyday users continue to help us find spam, malware and other issues in Search that escape<br \/>\n  our filters and processes by<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/report-spam-phishing-or-malware\/\">reporting spam on search<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/safebrowsing.google.com\/safebrowsing\/report_phish\/\" class=\"external-link\">reporting phishing<\/a><br \/>\n  \u0438\u043b\u0438<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/safebrowsing\/report_badware\/\" class=\"external-link\">reporting malware<\/a>.<br \/>\n  We received over 180,000 search spam user reports and we were able to take action on 64% of the<br \/>\n  reports we processed. These reports truly make a difference and we&#8217;d like to thank all of you<br \/>\n  who submitted them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We think it&#8217;s important to let website owners known when we detect something wrong with<br \/>\n  their website. In 2018, we generated over 186 million messages to website owners calling out<br \/>\n  potential improvements, issues and problems that could affect their site&#8217;s appearance on Search<br \/>\n  results. We can only deliver these notifications to site owners that verified their sites in<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/welcome\" class=\"external-link\">Search Console<\/a>,<br \/>\n  and we successfully delivered 96 million of those messages. The rest of the messages will be kept<br \/>\n  linked with the website for as long as they are relevant, so they can be seen when a webmaster<br \/>\n  successfully registers their site in Search Console. The majority of these messages were<br \/>\n  welcoming new users to Search Console, and the second largest group was informing registered<br \/>\n  Search Console users when Mobile-First Indexing became available. Of all messages, slightly<br \/>\n  over 2%\u2014about 4 million\u2014were related to<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9044175\" class=\"external-link\">manual actions<\/a><br \/>\n  resulting from violations of our Webmaster Guidelines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  High quality content keeps spam off of search results, and we continued to improve the tools<br \/>\n  and reports we offer for webmasters that create that content. The<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/about\" class=\"external-link\">Google Search Console<\/a><br \/>\n  was completely rebuilt from the ground up to provide both new and improved reports (<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7576553\" class=\"external-link\">\u042d\u0444\u0444\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7440203\" class=\"external-link\">Index Coverage<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9049606\" class=\"external-link\">Links<\/a>,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/mobile-sites\">Mobile Usability report<\/a>), as well as brand new features (<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/new-url-inspection-tool-and-more-in-search-console\/\">URL Inspection Tool<\/a><br \/>\n  and<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/collaboration-and-user-management-in-the-new-search-console\/\">Site and User management)<\/a>.<br \/>\n  This improved Search Console graduated out of beta in 2018 and is now available generally to<br \/>\n  all registered website owners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We didn&#8217;t forget the front-end developers who make the modern web work, and focused on<br \/>\n  helping them make their sites great for users and also search-friendly regardless of whether<br \/>\n  they are on a CMS, roll their own CSS and JS, or build on top of a web framework. With the new<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/launching-seo-audit-category-in-lighthouse-chrome-extension\/\">SEO audit capability<\/a> in<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/tools\/lighthouse\" class=\"external-link\">Lighthouse<\/a>, the open-source and automated<br \/>\n  auditing tool for improving the quality of web pages, developers and webmasters can now run<br \/>\n  actionable<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/lighthouse\/blipmdconlkpinefehnmjammfjpmpbjk\" class=\"external-link\">SEO health-checks<\/a><br \/>\n  on their pages and quickly identify areas for improvement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We also engage directly with website owners to provide help with thorny issues. Our<br \/>\n  dedicated team members meet with webmasters around the world regularly, both online and<br \/>\n  in-person. We delivered more than 190<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/events\">online office hours, online events and offline events<\/a> in more than 76<br \/>\n  cities, to audiences totaling over 170,000 including SEOs, developers and online marketers. We<br \/>\n  hosted four search events in Tokyo, Singapore, Zurich and Osaka as well as an 11-city Search<br \/>\n  Conference in India. In 2018, we started live office hours in Spanish on top of English, French,<br \/>\n  German, Hindi and Japanese, where Webmasters can find help, tips and useful discussion on our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCWf2ZlNsCGDS89VBF_awNvA\" class=\"external-link\">Google Webmaster YouTube channel<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Product experts continued to help webmasters find solutions through our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\" class=\"external-link\">official support forums<\/a><br \/>\n  in over a dozen languages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We look forward to continuing our work to deliver a Search experience without spam to all in 2019!\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attempt-left\" alt=\"cartoon image showing folks high-fiving\" height=\"228\"\n     src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-fda0b0c7121e.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by Juan Felipe Rinc\u00f3n, Webmaster Outreach, Dublin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 21, 2019 Google aims to provide the highest quality results for any search. 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