Google Warns Tools On User-Generated Spam Guidance & More
Google has updated its Prevent user-generated spam on your site and platform help document to specify "tools that let users publish shared pages, generated content, or web apps." The update explicitly includes platforms and tools that let users create shared pages, generated content, and web apps.
Key points
- • Also check the Page Indexing report and Search performance report regularly for unexpected spikes in indexed pages, impressions, or queries that don't match your platform's purpose.
- • Google also added “Only index content meant for Search,” recommending noindex or crawling restrictions for pages intended for sharing, collaboration, or utility rather than public discovery.
- • Google's new “Only index content meant for Search” section is also a significant addition.
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