Name: Google October 2022 Spam Update
Rollout: Completed on October 21, 2022 at around 5 am ET
Targets: It improves Google's spam detection techniques, Google said "sites that violate our policies may rank lower in results or not appear in results at all."
Penalty: It penalizes spam techniques that are against Google's spam policies.
Global: This is a global update impacting all regions and languages.
Recover: If you were hit by this, Google said you should review its spam policies to ensure they are complying with those.
Refreshes: Google will do periodic refreshes to the spam update. It can take many months to recover, Google said.
Summary:-
Google said this update is global and affects all languages.
If any site is hit by a spam update, its content is either demoted in search results or removed from Google’s index.
Spam updates help to identify phishing scams and other fake sites that try to rank in search results by posing as relevant pages.
Google says it could take months to recover from the negative impact of a spam update, provided the website makes the necessary changes to comply with Google’s spam policies.
Note:-
If you notice large ranking or traffic changes from your organic Google search results, you may have been hit by this spam update. Spam updates target specific guideline violations. Google did not say if this was links, content or other forms of spam, but rather just said it is spam-related in general.