Link spam update
December 2022 link spam update
Rolled out 14 Dec 2022 – 12 Jan 2023, 29 days. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
Google added these notes to its dashboard on 22 Mar 2023, after the update. The dates in the notes are the update’s own.
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:51 PDT
The rollout was complete as of January 12, 2023
· 22 Mar 2023, 06:50 PDT
Released (developers.google.com) the December 2022 link spam update (developers.google.com). This update is global and affects all languages.
Next to other link spam updates
The first link spam update on Google’s status dashboard, which lists them from December 2022.
It took 29 days.
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