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Google’s latest spam update has finished rolling out after nearly two weeks, taking longer than any of the three earlier spam updates it ran this year. The post Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update After Nearly 14 Days appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google may be issuing more manual action penalties over the past few weeks than it has over the weeks before that.
Google has updated the how leads work help documentation within Local Service Ads with a lot more detail. The changes are meaningful, including what counts as a billable phone lead and how Google handles lead quality/credits.
Google updated its help document in Merchant Center to say that if a product changes more than once per day, it may be “disapproved instead of updated if we detect a mismatch.”
Google Ads is adding new AI Max related columns to the Google Ads reporting console. The columns include brand inclusions, locations of interest, commission and optimized targeting.
Google Ads now lets advertisers set up Conversion Lift measurement themselves. Google updated its help documentation to say that you no longer need a Google Ads representative to set up Conversion Lift measurement; you just need at least 1,000 observed conversions and a $5,000 budget.
The Google September 2026 spam update is now done rolling out. It started on Thursday, September 28, 2026 at around 12:00 pm ET and completed on October 8, 2026 at 4:37 am ET
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