QUICK HIT: Google's Webspam Report 2016 In Focus
By Website Magazine
Google shared some interesting data about how it managed and fought webspam in 2016.

Google shared some interesting data about how it managed and fought webspam in 2016.
More than 300 in-house marketers, agencies and freelance creatives were interviewed.
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