Penguin Another Algorithmic Update But Less Powerful Than Panda

 


Cutts gave two examples of websites whose ranks he expected to see drop after Penguin. One displayed egregious keyword stuffing. The crime committed by the other site seemed a little more subtle, until you tried to read its text. It showed a poorly-written piece about exercise, with links about loans randomly scattered throughout the text. The text of the article clearly did not relate at all to the links.

The Penguin algorithm, though going live for all languages at the same time, was expected to have less of an impact than Panda. Cutts noted that Panda's initial

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Google Penguin Hurts Clueless Small Business Owners

This article talks about small businesses that were crippled by their Google Penguin induced drop in search enging rankings.


However, he was also relying on Google to send him 70 percent of his customers, mainly through searches for “dog beds” or “dog clothes.” As we’ve stated here on Search Engine Watch numerous times since Penguin launched, relying on Google for 70 percent of your livelihood is a doomed business model. Be grateful Google sent you all that traffic and business while it lasted, but you can’t count on it forever....More at Lost on

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Not Even Government Can Find Out What Happens Inside Google

This story in the New York Times the other day makes you wonder.

In Berlin, Google was forced to hand over data that a Street View car collected after months of non-cooperation.  After finally turning over the data it turns out that Google was logging into any wireless router that was not password protected and capturing personal information.

Snippets of e-mails, photographs, passwords, chat messages, postings on Web sites and social networks — all sorts of private Internet communications — were casually scooped up as the specially equipped cars photographed the

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Links Alpha: the Paid Version is My Newest Link Building Tool

Links Alpha, another service that allows your content to be published to social network sites automatically.
I used to sign up under different email addresses in order to have access to the social sharing buttons that you see on top of blog posts but I just decided to pay them the 5 bucks a month so that I could use the service for multiple websites and publish content to more networks.
After Google Panda took out just about every good blog network and SEO moving towards the social side of things, I've realized that links from social network sites and social bookmarking sites are weighed

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