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It's finally come up and stay for the spammers. Google has started sending out emails to sites that are actively hijacking the back button. Warning, your site may be in violation of Google's back button hijacking policy. Says right here, back button hijacking interferes with the user's browser navigation, preventing them from using their back button to im...
OpenIt's finally come up and stay for the spammers. Google has started sending out emails to sites that are actively hijacking the back button. Warning, your site may be in violation of Google's back button hijacking policy. Says right here, back button hijacking interferes with the user's browser navigation, preventing them from using their back button to im...
OpenIt's finally come up and stay for the spammers. Google has started sending out emails to sites that are actively hijacking the back button. Warning, your site may be in violation of Google's back button hijacking policy. Says right here, back button hijacking interferes with the user's browser navigation, preventing them from using their back button to immediately get back to the page they came from. This spam policy has gone unchecked for far too long. Google should have addressed this years ago. Enforcement of...
You know when you click the back button but the same page just loads over and over again? Google Search to penalize back button hijacking schemes. Finally, Google is giving websites until June 15th to remove this malicious spam practice. It's literally added right here to Google's Malicious Practices section in Google Search Central. For businesses that do this and don't remove it, they could have their entire websites blocked by Google. The internet has been waiting for this, and it's finally come. And learn SE...