When wearing a two-button suit jacket, one is generally advised to leave the bottom button open. Our critic explains the reasoning behind the rule. By Vanessa Friedman I’m a psychotherapist with a lot ...

You have until June 15, 2026 to remove the back button code before Google begins to take action. Google has issued a new warning to sites using back button hijacking techniques, saying those sites ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has made some controversial decisions related to its flagship search engine in recent years, but this one will probably be pretty popular. The company announced in a developer note (via ...

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect what Google considers spam, what happens when you report it, and what agentic search looks like in practice. Here’s what matters for you and your work.

Google announced a new spam policy targeting sites that interfere with browser back button navigation. Back button hijacking is now an explicit violation under Google's malicious practices spam policy ...

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Rand Fishkin didn’t get into SEO because he saw the future. He got into it because he had no choice. In the early 2000s, Fishkin helped run a small web business with his mom in Seattle. They hired ...

Back button hijacking, a practice that interferes with normal web browser back button functioning, is now against Google Search’s guidelines. Sites that engage in back button hijacking will be subject ...