What was Penguin?
Penguin was designed to penalize spammers in Google. It was launched on April 24.
Is Penguin fully live?
According to Google, Penguin is fully live.
How does one determine if a site was hit?
Check search-related traffic from Google after the launch date, April 24. If there was significantly less traffic as compared to one or two days ago, then the site was most probably hit by Penguin. On the other hand if there was a rise in traffic, Penguin proved to be beneficial for the site. If there were no changes, then the site was not hit.
How is the recovery process done?
Anything flagged by Google as spam in the site should be corrected. If suspicion exists that Penguin has hit the site likewise correct anything in the site that may appear spam-like.
What if Google made a mistake?
Penguin has a Penguin Feedback form that can be filled out. Feedback may also be posted through the webmaster forum of Google.
What about the over-optimization penalty?
Google had announced warning ahead of time regarding “over-optimization penalty. Google elucidated that the penalties are aimed for sites that are flat out spam. The penalties are not so much targeted at sites whose “over-optimization” will be difficult to prove.
What about Panda 3.5?
Panda 3.5 was released on April 19. Penguin was designed to detect spam while Panda was designed to detect sites with low quality.
What about negative SEO?
Recent talks and forums most especially in past couple of days have focused on the rise of “negative SEO.” This is a severe problem affecting SEOs like the New York SEO or NYC SEO. The principle behind negative SEO is that if being involved in blog network or if hosting paid links can compromise a site, then anyone would have the liberty to harm other sites just by pointing bad links.
Is Penguin bad for searchers and small businesses?
Blame was laid on Google for trying to endanger small business from closing in an attempt for the inter giant at getting more AdWords cash out of big brands. SEOs like the New York SEO or NYC SEO was compromised again.
If SEOs like the New York SEO or NYC SEO are indeed dying, the process is taking quite a long time. If Google’s aim was to put out small businesses, it has not been successful in the last 10 years.
