What is Google Fred Update?

Google Fred update penalizing low quality back links sites and this update actually targets ad heavy, low value content and affiliate sites.

Google said the spam techniques that the Fred update addressed are mentioned in their webmaster guidelines – these include low-quality content and spammy backlinks. Often, these spam tactics occur together, since websites have usually utilized cheap SEO companies who build low-quality content and purchase backlinks.

As always Google is not releasing any information on updates. But by not denying it, they are confirming that something big has changed in the past days. And we are not talking about the minor changes that Google is making every day (on average 3 changes per day). So there is no exact details on what Fred does. But a lot of SEO and ranking monitoring services have been seeing huge fluctuations in Google rankings. Stormy weather in SEO land! When digging deeper and trying to find out what Fred is

There’s no single metric that will tell you it happened, but if you gather enough significant indicators, you might just be onto something (if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck… it might be a Fred).

It has been not official update from Google yet. They said it will evaluate the website based on the quality, not the quantity. Anyway, be careful with it at any time.

this is has not been confirmed by google, However, The latest Google Fred update has to do with penalizing content driven sites that are too inundated with ads and motivated by driving ad revenue where they become troublesome for users trying to view content.

Essentially, content url’s that placed generating ad revenue over solving user problems are in jeopardy of being hit with the penalty. Some sites reported over a 50% drop in traffic due to the penalty.

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this is unconfirmed google ranking update. me also confused about that. even google not disclosed clearly about this update..

Fred is the Latest update of Google which is launched in the last month. you can read complete information on search Engine Land.

Google Fred Update focus on black hat seo and low quality backlinks site. Most of website lose their ranking during this update