All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s called back button hijacking, and Google has thus far tolerated it. That ends in June, when the company ...
This week in search, we are seeing yet again more Google search ranking volatility. Google sent out notifications about back ...
You click a search result, skim the page, and tap the back button to return to Google. Nothing happens. You tap again. The page reloads, or you land on a different ad. You are stuck, and the site did ...
Google has introduced a new rule to combat 'back button hijacking,' a practice where websites interfere with users' ...
Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy. Back button hijacking occurs when a site prevents users from ...
It's been a while since Google has come out with a new search spam policy and penalty to accompany it with and now we have a new one, "back button hijacking." Back button hijacking is something many ...
Google is putting its foot down on "back button hijacking," an infamous deceptive practice where users are kept on a long loop of pressing the back button but are either not brought anywhere or ...
Now do hyperlink abuse. I regularly go to a site that uses hyperlinks that look like they'd go to other source material but in fact just go right back to the same site, either the same article or one ...
Google is tackling a problem that we've all dealt with on the internet.