{"id":15511,"date":"2026-04-14T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/google-search-goes-after-back-button-hijacking-with-new-spam-penalty\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:45:52","slug":"google-search-goes-after-back-button-hijacking-with-new-spam-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/google-search-goes-after-back-button-hijacking-with-new-spam-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Goes After Back Button Hijacking With New Spam Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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, &#8220;back button hijacking.&#8221; Back button hijacking is something many of us were surprised Google didn&#8217;t specifically disallow but now, Google said it is on the rise and it is adding it to the list &#8211; officially.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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, &#8220;back button hijacking.&#8221; Back button hijacking is something many of us were surprised Google didn&#8217;t specifically disallow but now, Google said it is on the rise and it is adding it to the list &#8211; officially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}