SEOA Very Mild Case of Google Penguin?

A Very Mild Case of Google Penguin?

Not every site is impacted the same way by Penguin, Google's algorithm that targets spammy link building tactics. On Twitter, Google's Matt Cutts told one webmaster to continue doing backlink cleanup, as the site has a "very mild case of Penguin."

Not every site is impacted the same way by Penguin, Google’s algorithm that targets spammy link building tactics. On Twitter, Google’s Matt Cutts told one webmaster to continue doing backlink cleanup, as the site has a “very mild case of Penguin.”

Mild Penguin Tweets

The tweet itself was quite interesting, and seem to be in response to an issue the webmaster brought up to Cutts during a recent conference, as Cutts is well known for writing down webmaster concerns in his ever-present notebook. Cutts initially tweeted about checking on the site, which had been hit by a Penguin issue, and mentioned a manual action was revoked on back in November.

The issue seems to go back earlier than that, because their tweets between Cutts and Chipper Nicodemus date back to the fall when he tweeted the site verticalresponse.com and stating there were issues with backlinks and how Google Webmaster Tools was displaying them.

Mild Penguin Tweets

It isn’t surprising to hear that there are different degrees of Penguin. We’ve certainly seen this in the past.

Some sites get an unnatural linking penalties warning in Google Webmaster Tools, yet see no difference in the rankings. Others get a warning, yet see only specific pages that were linked to be affected. And some sites get the warning and see their site entirely removed from Google, where it doesn’t even rank for their company name.

Resources

The 2023 B2B Superpowers Index

whitepaper | Analytics The 2023 B2B Superpowers Index

8m
Data Analytics in Marketing

whitepaper | Analytics Data Analytics in Marketing

10m
The Third-Party Data Deprecation Playbook

whitepaper | Digital Marketing The Third-Party Data Deprecation Playbook

1y
Utilizing Email To Stop Fraud-eCommerce Client Fraud Case Study

whitepaper | Digital Marketing Utilizing Email To Stop Fraud-eCommerce Client Fraud Case Study

1y