How Google’s Penguin 3.0 Is Playing Out Across The Web
How has Penguin 3.0 resonated globally? Contributor Philip Petrescu of Advanced Web Ranking shares data on the algorithm update’s impact.
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Google Says Penguin To Shift To “Continuous Updates”
Google To Continuously “Optimize” The Penguin Algorithm As It Goes
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For The Holidays, Google Breaks Its No Updates Rules, Gives Out Fresh Penguin Updates
Since Google’s “Florida” Update of November 2003[1], the search engine has kept to an unofficial promise not to mess with its ranking algorithm during the holiday season. That’s changed this year with a flurry of Penguin Updates. Penguin is Google’s filter to fight spam that gets past its regular…
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Was Your Site Hit By Panda Or Penguin? This Flowchart May Help You Find Out.
Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller has put together this handy flow chart to help you determine if your site has been hit by one of Google’s infamous algorithm updates.
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Is This The End Of The Penguin & Panda Era Shakeups And Recoveries?
For many webmasters, major algorithm updates like Panda and Penguin turned their world upside down, but columnist Aaron Friedman believes the days of big upsets may well be over.
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Google: Penguin 3.0 Rollout Still Ongoing
Google has confirmed with us that the shifts and changes reported throughout the industry on Thanksgiving day were a result of the Penguin 3.0 refresh that first began rolling out 6-weeks ago. Google told us in response to what we saw on Thanksgiving day, “the Penguin rollout is ongoing, and…
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18-Days Later, Google Penguin 3.0 Continues To Slowly Roll Out Worldwide
Friday night, October 17th, Google finally pushed out a refresh/update of the Penguin algorithm, we code-named Penguin 3.0. We discovered later it was a worldwide update, impacting less than one-percent of English queries and that it would roll out for…
Google Penguin 3.0: Worldwide Rollout Still In Process, Impacting 1% Of English Queries
Google updated their Penguin algorithm with version Penguin 3.0 late Friday night. The Penguin algorithm primarily looks at a site’s backlink profile and may demote a site that appears to have a poor backlink profile. The Penguin 3.0 release was communicated very poorly by Google. With Google…
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Google Releases First Penguin Update In Over A Year
Google has confirmed with us that they have updated the Penguin algorithm over the weekend. Starting late Friday night, savvy SEOs began noticing major changes in the Google search results. The SEO industry began speculating that this was a Penguin ref…
Google: Penguin Refresh May Come As Early As Next Week
Google’s Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst and Search Quality Engineer, said at Search Marketing Expo East that Google may be launching a Penguin algorithm refresh sometime next week. This is not just a refresh, but a large re-write of the algorithm that took Google almost a full year to…
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Nearly A Year Later, Are We Finally Going To Get A Penguin Update Refresh?
In 22 days from now, it will be the year anniversary of the release of the fifth update to Google’s Penguin algorithm, code-named Penguin 2.1. As you can imagine, waiting 11 months and 8 days can be excruciating for those who were negatively impacted by the punitive algorithm. They’ve…
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The Confusion Over Google’s Algorithm Updates & Refreshes
I personally spend a lot of time within the SEO space investigating claims of Google algorithm updates, it is a fascinating topic because there are so many variables involved and a lot of secrecy on Google’s end around their search algorithms. Often, Google will not confirm updates or…
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Penguin: Google’s Punitive Algorithm – And A Call To Google To Fix It
For many years, a staple of my discussions with people who had been penalized by Google was the following advice: “Don’t worry — at Google, there is a culture of letting you repent of your sins and then be forgiven.” Even if you had made some bad choices, if you started…
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No, Google Says There’s Been No Penguin Update
This morning, I noticed a lot of buzz around a possible Google Penguin update. The SEO space was noticing huge changes in the search results from perviously penalized sites, many that were impacted by the Google Penguin update. The Google Penguin algor…
Lawyers Sue SEO firm For Violating Google Guidelines
A law firm in Michigan, Seikaly & Stewart, is suing its former SEO provider — but not for a lack of ranking success. Rather the firm is getting sued for allegedly using “spammy” techniques violating Google’s guidelines. That comes via Eric Goldman. The…
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Were You Really Hit By A Search Engine Penalty, Or Is It Something Else?
Often, I’ll speak to prospective clients who think they’ve been hit by an algorithm update or a penalty. They’ve lost a lot of organic traffic, so they immediately think that a search engine change is to blame. Unfortunately, I’ve also run into many situations where SEOs are…
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Google’s Penguin Algorithm Comes In Different Levels Of Degrees?
It may be the case that some sites impacted by Google’s Penguin update may not be as impacted as the next. Meaning, Google’s algorithms may apply a different degree of the Penguin update (which may feel like a penalty) to one site over an other. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search…
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5 Not-So-Common Reconsideration Request Errors
I’ve been struggling with a particularly difficult link cleanup project lately. On the occasion of my 100th reconsideration request (4th for this particular client), I thought it might be helpful to share five not-so-common problems that you might run into during your own link cleanup…
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The Brave New World of SEO: Beyond Websites
We hear it regularly – the death knell tolling for SEO. In the past several years, we’ve been bombarded by a barrage of change in organic search, from Penguin to Panda to Hummingbird, from inbound link penalties to [not provided]. Let’s face it: the only constant in search is…
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Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live
The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. But since this Penguin update is using a slightly improved version of Google’s “Penguin 2″ second-generation technology, Google itself is…
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