Multiple Google-penalized sites show recovery signs after late-September ranking shift
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-11
SEO practitioners observed a significant change at Google around Sept 25–26: several sites hit by the Q4 round of manual penalties (pre "scaled-content abuse") are seeing massive spikes in GSC impressions and clicks. After the "Spam update," more than one or two of the many penalized sites being tracked show similar signs of recovery — though not all.
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