{"id":5983,"date":"2025-08-31T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:47:24","slug":"google-august-2025-spam-update-effects-recovery-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/google-august-2025-spam-update-effects-recovery-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Google August 2025 Spam Update Causing Websites to Tank in Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2025 Google Spam update is making impact on website ranking to fall in SERPs <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google&#8217;s August 2025 algorithm update was announced on 26th August as &#8220;Spam Update&#8221; which was released worldwide in all languages and targeted websites having spam content which is not helpful for users. The effect of this <strong>August 2025<\/strong> spam-update started seeing among thousands of publisher websites within 24 hours after the start of the update. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEO consultants and experts on X, WebmasterWorld and even on Seroundtable commented that they&#8217;re seeing huge fluctuations among the sites they are managing on their clients&#8217; behalf. Most SEO experts said that they&#8217;ve expreienced the sites to tank in search engine results (SERPs). Most spammy sites and blogs who did not publish helpful contect are seen to de-rank, that is, the ranking of such sites fell thus those spam websites ranking on page 1 in google search have been pushed down to page 8 or 9 according to Glenn. <\/p><div class='code-block code-block-9' style='margin: 8px auto 8px 0; text-align: left; display: block; clear: both;'>\n<!-- OnlHeaderResponsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5339207343588395\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9406207027\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many bloggers, webmasters have commented that they are seeing huge drop in ranking as well as website traffic due to sites been falling from top ranking positions to the end of the search results on pages 8 or 9. Even Brian said he is seeing huge improvement towards downside. His site&#8217;s impressions, clicks, and keyword positions have started falling according to the Google Search Console (GSC) screenshot he shared we us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few web developers who rely more on Google Discover traffic are seeing zero clicks and impress from Google Discover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a webmaster running a receipe site has claimed that he is seeing boost in traffic after the <strong>Google August spam update<\/strong> begun. According to his claims the SERP raised from page 2 to page 1 for over 300 of his top performing keywords. His receipe blog includes personal receipes with photos, videos and instructions. He had optimized the webpages after Google&#8217;s HCU had hit is website last year. After tweaking the pages and the content his website is now started climbing in ranking, impressions and clicks and Google&#8217;s Spam update in August 2025 seems to reward his website more as always it seems Google rewarding helpful content that satisfy user&#8217;s intent and answers their searches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here&#8217;s what the webmaster have exprienced since start of Google August 2025 Spam Update: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We analyzed and talked with over 1200 web developers and creators who run websites, blogs, etc and here&#8217;s what we found: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On an average 25% of the traffic got lost <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Website having AI generated content got hit the most <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>News and media sites got hit the hardest <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Personalized review sites got to see the boost in ranking <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sites publishing helpful content got seen a 15% boost <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to recover from Google August 2025 Spam Update? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are few quick tips to recover from this spam update quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Write helpful content which satisfies your user&#8217;s queries. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stop writing spam articles and blog posts, including guest blog posts. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Link-out to authority sites and topics related to your niche. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use text, images, videos in the articles. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write for users and not search engine bots. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not buy links from PBNs as most of them are spam networks and Google can find them easily and may penalized all linked websites\/blogs. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2025 Google Spam update is making impact on website ranking to fall in SERPs Google&#8217;s August 2025 algorithm update was announced on 26th August&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[163,166],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","tag-google","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-online.com\/hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}