Google confirmed its latest confirmed algorithm update, the Google August 2025 spam update completed today, September 22. How do you know if you were impacted when the last couple weeks were a mess?
In this video, I will cover what this spam update is about, some quick facts on the August 2025 spam update, why the update took so long, and what Google said and did not say about this spam update. I will also cover some of the early volatility according to the third party tools and how tracking this update at the end will be super hard. As a reminder, the third-party tracking tools and Search Console were a mess after Google disabled the num=100 parameter.
So stay tuned and don’t forget to subscribe to learn more about Google search algorithm updates and my follow up video on the full impact of this update.
0:00 - Introduction 0:28 - What is the Google August 2025 spam update 1:23 - Google August 2025 spam update quick facts 1:51 - Why this spam update took 27 days to roll out 3:28 - What Google said or did not say about this update 4:28 - The early search volatility from tools 5:00 - Messy tracking data at the end of the spam update 6:23 - Google Search Console impacted too 7:03 - How do you know if you were impacted 7:36 - Can you recover from this spam update 8:59 - Previous Google spam updates 9:36 - Conclusion
