I also showed several screenshots of Google organic trending for sites hit by Penguin. I've seen them thousands of times since April 24, 2012 when Penguin first hit. When business owners first reach out to me about a Penguin hit, their emails can...
With the rapid adoption and renewed interest in content, part cause and part consequence of Google's Panda and Penguin updates, search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, tools, and business processes have changed dramatically.
Also, Cutts has revealed that Google is working on a significant change to the Penguin algorithm. Google Penguin: The Next Generation It isn’t known when the next Penguin update will arrive, but Cutts revealed Google is working on a “new generation...
Google wouldn’t be wasting their time creating the Penguin Algorithm and imposing Manual Link Spam penalties if backlinks didn’t still make a big difference. Keep in mind that Penguin is just the latest anti link spam algorithm rolled out by Google.
I receive a lot of calls from companies that have been hit by Panda or Penguin, and both algorithm updates have been fascinating to analyze. I always explain Panda as a much deeper algorithm update at this stage than Penguin, and there could be a...
This has led to large numbers of sites being hit by link penalties or new algorithms like Penguin. Article directories were hit in the initial Penguin release on April 24, 2012. There isn't clear evidence that low-quality directories were...
Since Penguin is an algorithm and not a penalty, there is nothing to reconsider. The following methodology will also work if you have been affected by Penguin. Now is not the time to be clever and try to “slip one by” Google.
Think about how Google Penguin has impacted SEO and how mobile and social continue to impact the customer experience online. On the search results side of the equation, SEO reporting vendors continue to face pressure from Google to eliminate...
And the funny thing is that I haven’t been hit by Penguin updates, but I never tried to build links which they are all rich. But it still has some value, and would you say that that value makes it worth using to some extent, or would you stay away...
Google has blown their whistle, thrown a yellow flag, and called it Penguin. Enough people have covered Panda and Penguin to make it pretty common SEO knowledge that things like content, links and usability, some of the exact things that can...
That said, are you prepared to handle the Google penalties and bad publicity that Dun Penguin Paralysis”. Their studies concluded that if: “under 50 percent of your anchor text for incoming links were “money keywords” it’s all but guaranteed you...
Panda and Penguin top the list as the most visible game-changers, but there is another one that occurred somewhat under the radar – but has been equally dramatic in its impact on SEO. For example, if you do a non-personalized search on Google with...
Perhaps the subject to get the most attention in the SEO community, the Penguin algorithm update hit the SERPS earlier this year. Penguin Algorithm Update Although not a major change that directly impacted the actual contents of the search results...
Since Google introduced its Panda and Penguin algorithmic updates, we've seen a seismic shift in the way that we work "with" search engines. Many companies and agencies that had been producing and engaging in online content marketing strategies, as...
Once they knew it worked it was then simply a case of offering those with Penguin penalties the same “service,” via the Disavow Links Tool. Penguin and Panda are not about hurting site owners. The announcement that Google had created and launched a...
The Panda 2.5 and Penguin 1.0 reference groups set the expectation that a GOCT score > 20 means the vertical was hit particularly hard by Google updates. Each time Google rolls out an update or refresh of their infamous Panda or Penguin algorithms...
As you may know, Google has been (since their Vince update, and the following Panda/Penguin stuff) trying to rank higher quality (“brand”) websites. I haven't followed up on this (chances are, with Google’s updates, they are seeing better results...
Is duplicate content, scraping, all that is included in Google’s Quality Guidelines more of a factor in the Penguin update than the SEO community considered? After the Penguin update of late April 2012 hit, I quickly noticed that one of my client’s...
And with the recent rollouts of Panda and Penguin, this meme is truer now more than ever. I like to rate the writers on an overall scale of 1 to 5, identifying strengths and weaknesses, noting whether they have a blog and/or social media accounts...
For some, they were hit by Penguin. If you have been hit by Penguin, it now becomes a waiting game for you, and you need to wait for an algo update and hope for the best. We have helped a few sites to get their penalty removed (not Penguin as yet...
