Google Extends UGC Spam Guidance to Publishing and Sharing Tools

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Google has broadened its guidance on user-generated content abuse to cover platforms and apps that let people publish shared pages, generated content, or web apps. The focus is on the indexing and abuse controls of third-party publishing and sharing services, not only traditional forums and comment sections. The guidance, last updated October 26, 2026, recommends that platform owners index only content intended for Search, using noindex meta tags, X-Robots-Tag headers, or robots.txt blocking. It also urges operators to monitor for abuse signals, such as sudden surges in new indexed URLs, and to verify their sites in Search Console.

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