Google has released their annual web spam report and I just love comparing the previous year report to this one. Here are some of the highlights from the report, including Google sent 4 million manual actions in 2018, where sent 6 million in 2017.
About 4 million manual action messages were related to manual actions resulting from violations of our Webmaster Guidelines, which is about 2% of their notifications.
Google sent 186 million messages, of which 96 million were delivered, compared to 45 million messages the previous year.
Google received about twice as many spam reports in 2018, 180,000 to be exact (they took action on 64% of them), compared to 90,000 the previous year.
Reduced the impact of user generated spam on Google results by more than 80% Google said.
Google also reduced link spam and hacked content, in their continued efforts.
Google beefed up webmaster/community communication as well.
You can see the full report over here.
