Is Google Targeting Service Area Pages with the August 2026 Spam Update?

[JoyHawkins]

Reposting this thread we got on our subreddit.

This user is saying they are seeing service area pages (pages targeting a specific city with the goal to rank organically in that city) getting hit by the August 2026 Spam Update. Anyone here seeing this? Examples?

 

[Tony Wang]

Several pages I have are still ranking well. Some others I haven't been tracking as closely, so it's hard to say.