Google’s August 2026 spam update saw an 82% increase in top 10 URLs dropping out of the top 100 compared with a period without a confirmed ranking update, according to new SE Ranking data. During the update, 16.71% of URLs that had ranked in Google’s top 10 fell beyond position 100 for the same keyword, compared with 9.2% during a similar five-day period in July. That made a top 10 URL about 1.8 times more likely to disappear from the top 100 during the spam update. By the numbers. Here’s some data SE Ranking shared with Search Engine Land: SE Ranking pulled a set of baseline data from a few days before the update rolled out to compare the…
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