There are times spam updates go unnoticed, and then there are some spam updates that cause a ton of volatility. Well, the August spam update was big. My latest post covers four case studies based on my analysis -> The August 2026 Google Spam Update – Scaled Content Abuse, AI Content, Programmatic Content, Thin Affiliates, And More [Case Studies] The issues I surfaced across sites that were impacted included: *Scaled content abuse (of course...) *Mixed with AI-generated content and programmatic content (again, of course...) *Thin affiliates (scraping Amazon data, no human involvement at all) *Malicious activity (mixed with other spam issues) And more... gsqi.com/marketing-blog/augu…