Google has confirmed that the recent changes related to Penguin that many webmasters have been noticing since last week are indeed still Penguin 3.0 rolling out. Many webmasters have been noticing extreme fluctuations in search results on previously affected Penguin websites, particularly with some of the websites that were hit with the original rollout of […]
Penguin 3.0 is Continuing to Rollout & Still Too Late to Disavow
We saw many Penguin fluctuations happen over this weekend, and we knew that Penguin would be ongoing over several weeks. But John Mueller from Google has confirmed that the Penguin update is still ongoing in a Webmaster Office Hours this week. In the latest Google Webmaster Hangouts, he was asked about whether Penguin is still […]
Penguin 3.0: Is it an Update or Merely a Refresh? Google’s Response
When Penguin began rolling out Friday night, we all assumed this was the long awaited Penguin update. After all, with over a year to work on it, many assumed it was a new groundbreaking Penguin that would leave the old one in the dust in terms of spam fighting. So while a year is a […]
Penguin 3.0 Affects Less than 1% of Queries, Will Rollout for Weeks
Google has publicly posted the first comments about the Penguin update. Pierre Far shared the following on Google+: On Friday last week, we started rolling out a Penguin refresh affecting fewer than 1% of queries in US English search results. This refresh helps sites that have already cleaned up the webspam signals discovered in the […]
Penguin 3.0 Finally Updates – Google Hits Homepages, Affiliates & 301 Redirect Spam
After waiting more than a year, the Penguin 3.0 update has finally rolled out. Google has emailed me to confirm that Penguin did roll out on Friday, at the same time forums and Twitter began to light up about a possible Penguin update rolling out, but said they might not release any further details or […]
Penguin Possibly Next Week, Too Late to Disavow Links for Update
Penguin update is “weeks away” according to Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst. Illyes was speaking on the “Meet the SEOs and Search Engines” at SMX East today. Illyes said he talked to the search quality group about this a couple weeks ago, and was told it was “weeks away”, which means we could […]
Penguin Will Launch in the Reasonable Future in 2014 According to John Mueller
Another Google Webmaster Central Office Hours was held today, and yes, John Mueller was asked about Penguin, and more specifically, whether the next Penguin update would happen in 2014. Here was his response… Will the Penguin 3.0 launch in 2014? My guess is yes, but as always there are always things that could happen in […]
Google Confirms Penguin Refresh Needed to Recover
It has long been debated whether a Penguin update is needed in order to recover from a true Penguin algo hit, or whether it is possible that you can recover despite the fact we haven’t seen a Penguin refresh for almost a year. General consensus is that an update is needed, but there are those […]
Is Google Penguin Finally About to Update?
Could we finally be seeing a long awaited Penguin update, something that has been more than 10 months in the making? Last month John Mueller revealed that the engineers were currently working on Penguin. But there have been many more questions raised recently about just why we haven’t seen a Penguin update refresh yet. But […]