Google unleashes another spam update that will take one week to complete, capping off a busy year targeting spam and other policy violations.
Google announces December 2024 spam update
The latest spam update comes one day after December`s core algorithm update finished rolling out and aligns with Google’s continued efforts to clean up search results throughout 2024, which saw a March core update aimed at improving search quality and a two-part June spam update targeting policy violations.
Google announced the December core update on X:
And on its Search Status Dashboard, saying:
“Released the December 2024 spam update, which applies france mobile numbers list globally and to all languages. The rollout may take up to 1 week to complete.”
Google linked the announcement to its Search Central spam update page that reads:
“While Google’s automated systems to detect search spam are constantly operating, we occasionally make notable improvements to how they work. When we do, we refer to this as a spam update and share when they happen on our list of Google Search ranking updates.
For example, SpamBrain is our AI-based spam-prevention system. From time-to-time, we improve that system to make it better at spotting spam and to help ensure it catches new types of spam.
Sites that see a change after a spam update should review our spam policies to ensure they are complying with those. Sites that violate our policies may rank lower in results or not appear in results at all. Making changes may help a site improve if our automated systems learn over a period of months that the site complies with our spam policies.
In the case of a link spam update (an update that specifically deals with link spam), making changes might not generate an improvement. This is because when our systems remove the effects spammy links may have, any ranking benefit the links may have previously generated for your site is lost. Any potential ranking benefits generated by those links cannot be regained.”