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Google webspam report: Cracking down on renegade linking practices, auto-generated content

“More than 25 billion pages we discover each day are spammy,” the company revealed. Google discovers more than 25 billion spammy pages a day, according to its annual webspam report released Tuesday. The company also published a companion post on why it’s important to keep spam out of search results. The definition of spam. “We define ‘spam’ as using techniques that attempt to mimic [high quality content] signals without actually delivering on the promise of high quality content, or other tactics that might prove harmful to searchers,” the post reads. A more comprehensive list of…

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