Google Penguin

[nick-harper]

Is on its way...

 

[murph]

Is on its way...

Uhoh what have you heard?

 

[nick-harper]

Matt cutts has tweeted about it..0.3% of queries affected

 

[murph]

Yep just spotted it:

Weather report: Penguin data refresh coming today. 0.3% of English queries noticeably affected.

 

[Jamie101]

Matt cutts has tweeted about it..0.3% of queries affected

Just like the way it was only 0.6% last week, as if.

Anyway, I've noticed a good few changes already with this new update.

 

[nick-harper]

Really? When did you notice the changes start?

 

[Jamie101]

Really? When did you notice the changes start?

Around an hour ago.

Bit of background:

Ranked #3 page 1 for months

Last week it got slapped really badly. Rankings was all over the place.

Earlier today I noticed it was on page 2 and thought "great, it looks like its coming back".

A few hours later, I can't find it. Stopped looking after page 10.

 

[nick-harper]

Oh, I thought you meant the changes were good

 

[Jamie101]

Oh, I thought you meant the changes were good

Sorry, I should've said that they are bad.

Forgot to mention something actually. Even after last weeks update 1 affiliate site stayed on page 1 (not mine, someone elses). I couldn't understand why it wasn't hit while pretty much all other affiliate sites/EMDs were.

Well, this site is now on page 3 so now there's not 1 affiliate site on page 1. Just brands!

So, I think this update is giving affiliates even more of a bad time. Oh well.

 

[murph]

Anyone get hit from this?

 

[PoshTiger]

Every single one of my sites was hit last week - hoping (but not really expecting) for some upwards movement.

 

[jezz]

Just like the way it was only 0.6% last week, as if.

These updates are targeting commercial terms which are a small subset of overall search.

If you were to ask "what percentage of commercial queries are affected" it would be a big percentage.

 

[jezz]

Every single one of my sites was hit last week - hoping (but not really expecting) for some upwards movement.

Think youve had it TBH (as have I). Google are trying to get rid of:

1) SEO's who they see as parasites reselling their traffc
2) Affilliates who they see as parasites reselling their traffic

I can understand that, but it would be nice if they were honest about it and drop the BS about "quality", "user experience" etc, when clearly sites they are ranking now is often worse than the ones they removed in terms of quality, or are authority sites which have less relevance.

 

[GWM]

Penguin

I suffered too, getting knocked off page one having maintained top 5 slots for a number of search terms for a number of years. Initial changes way back in Feb/March saw it disappear but I've been working on it since and it has crawled back from page 42 to page 2. No manual penalty, so all to do with quality I guess and links. The problem with affiliates is finding the value add on something that's been churned over thousands of times. My biggest issue with Penguin is that the site that is now in the number one spot is an affiliate site with very poor content and layout and 95% of the incoming links are from a single site......it really makes chasing this Penguin very difficult. I do agree entirely that search results are worse since the Penguin though....glad to see Googles profits drop 20%, they better sort it out or Yahoo might just take over as number one search engine again.

 

[cc976a]

Has anyone seen any sign of recovery yet?