Is It Safer To Spam Google Search During The Holidays & New Years?

Dec 26, 2016 - 8:31 am 11 — by

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If you follow Google like I do, you'd notice that it is like a ghost town there. Almost everyone is off, on vacation, spending time with family and friends. If you send an email to a Googler, it is almost guaranteed you'd get a vacation response.

In fact, Paul Bakaus from the AMP team at Google posted that on Twitter:

So, somewhat in a joking manner, I responded "maybe a good time to spam Google?" He responded, rightfully so:

Of course, the algorithms don't take vacations. But I do suspect the Google manual action team does. Still, they all return from vacation and I am sure they get busy quick.

And we do know John Mueller is working.

So, my advice, don't try to spam Google this week - it will back fire one way or another.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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