Penguin 2.0 rolled out today

[Online18Casino]

According to Matts twitter account and Blog post:

"We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice. The change has also finished rolling out for other languages world-wide. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with more webspam will see more impact."

- Penguin 2.0 rolled out today

Anyone notice any difference?

I have been bumped up a few spots for certain keywords, and back a few spots for some others, but everything looks pretty much the same.

All in all, for me an okay update!

 

[Webzcas]

Seeing no noticeable change in traffic across the board yet....

 

[cassaon888]

We jumped a couple of pages for our main kw's. It still early days yet anything can still happen.

 

[Viriatu]

on my native language sites i saw and increase across the board for my more lengthy content articles and some bumps on some money kw already, nothing went back that i saw overall not many changes but some positive ones, lets see if it sticks or if it is just a small variation, still early to draw serious conclusions.

 

[inspiration]

no significant changes for SERP but crap is actually rising to the top without being hammered, weird stuff............???

 

[buddy m]

Is there an average lenght of time that we can expect to see a change if there is to be one, or is it anyone guess?

 

[muffincrumbs]

Matt Cutts said that all updates are now rolling out over the course of several days, to weeks. There will be no more instant algorithm changes anymore, imagine a drip as opposed to a waterfall. I have noted an increase in traffic substantially, but with ever PR update my sites gain at least 10% more. Over the last week, my main site has seen +25% increase in traffic, all from long-tail k/w's. It started on the 21st and, it is continuing even today as far as I can tell. Should complete by 29th... again just a guess.

 

[buddy m]

Matt Cutts said that all updates are now rolling out over the course of several days, to weeks. There will be no more instant algorithm changes anymore, imagine a drip as opposed to a waterfall. I have noted an increase in traffic substantially, but with ever PR update my sites gain at least 10% more. Over the last week, my main site has seen +25% increase in traffic, all from long-tail k/w's. It started on the 21st and, it is continuing even today as far as I can tell. Should complete by 29th... again just a guess.

WOW, that is very nice. Congrats.

 

[muffincrumbs]

Thanks very much! This forum has a very positive attitude. I love it.

 

[TrafficKitty]

Hi everybody!


Im new on this field... still dont know everything I needed to know to rank in Google and now I see new changes.

Can anyone sumarize what was updated? in a newbie friendly language please!

hahahaha thanks!

 

[buddy m]

LOL. I been around since 2004 and I still need a newbie friendly language.

 

[cassaon888]

Matt Cutts said that all updates are now rolling out over the course of several days, to weeks. There will be no more instant algorithm changes anymore, imagine a drip as opposed to a waterfall. I have noted an increase in traffic substantially, but with ever PR update my sites gain at least 10% more. Over the last week, my main site has seen +25% increase in traffic, all from long-tail k/w's. It started on the 21st and, it is continuing even today as far as I can tell. Should complete by 29th... again just a guess.

Congratz from my side as well! Good to read some positive feedback concerning G's latest update amidst all the chaos it caused thus far.

 

[muffincrumbs]

haha, thanks again, and to put it into easily understandable terms is... well.. easy

Matt is the head of web-spam at Google. His team both works on the manual spam filters, and on the automatic spam detection software (aka an algorithm). What happens if your site is targeted?

A manual target from his team will sink your site forever, but only black hat seo people would have that happen to them. You basically can not recover from this... ever. You can find examples of these sites by looking toward the weebly domain as they love to leverage weebly's PR, but I digress... sorry lol.

An automatic or algorithmic penalty happens without you knowing it, unless you watch your search terms regularly, as you will lose all ranking for the specific term. It is always running in the background of Google and it examines anchor text, PR of the linking and link from pages, and 750+ others things to determine how good it is, and if it should be penalized as spam. After getting hit, some webmasters have reported being able to use the disavow tool, clean up their links, and re-rank for something close to that exact term. Imo and others as well, you may never rank again for the exact specific term the algorithm found to be spammy again. Yes this will also decrease your sites overall trustworthiness in the eyes of G, it will not be an end all like a manual penalty.

So... your scared now huh? We are all scared to link to our own sites now. <<

What can you do to help build good links that will not be hit?

1. Only from quality sites
2. Surrounded by well written text and optimized graphics
3. Diversifying anchor texts so much if silly
4. NEVER BUY A LINK... not even one. I make a great living doing this and I have never bought or sold one.

I hope this helps <3

 

[DoggyStyle]

I'd like to take that opportunity and ask you (and everyone) a question regarding black-hat seo.

I know a website, which is pretty shit, I mean real crap! Only 5 pages or so and horrible language (some sentences doesn't even make sense). No pagerank, website authority 8/100 and just a couple of spammy backlinks. However, it appeared out of nowhere a few weeks ago (created in May 2013!) but ranks on SERP #2 or #3 for a specific casino name.
I have no proof, but it is obvious to me that they are doing some kind of blackhat stuff.

How can I report that site to google or make them aware that there is something wrong going on?

 

[Viriatu]

I'd like to take that opportunity and ask you (and everyone) a question regarding black-hat seo.

I know a website, which is pretty shit, I mean real crap! Only 5 pages or so and horrible language (some sentences doesn't even make sense). No pagerank, website authority 8/100 and just a couple of spammy backlinks. However, it appeared out of nowhere a few weeks ago (created in May 2013!) but ranks on SERP #2 or #3 for a specific casino name.
I have no proof, but it is obvious to me that they are doing some kind of blackhat stuff.

How can I report that site to google or make them aware that there is something wrong going on?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rhRenrd16MDSgAOwnMVx9KQbp--0JoY9vKiJdIcMe44/viewform

 

[DoggyStyle]

It's spam reports, but I try it anyway. thanks.

 

[muffincrumbs]

You can do the old... "search their linking sites and report them at the domain hosting level trick" Which in itself is ethically questionable in some situations, in this one it certainly would help somewhat and be a God send for a lot of us. Of course it takes time, and sometimes the hosting companies wont do anything. With some pressure they will cave in. Get to work sir.