Three weeks ago, Google unleashed its Penguin update upon webmasters. The update, as you may know, was designed to decrease the rankings of sites engaging in black hat SEO tactics and webspam. One of the classic black hat tactics is keywords stuffing, so if you’ve been doing
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There’s been a lot of discussion about Google’s Penguin update since it was launched. The update, if you haven’t been following, is about decreasing the rankings of sites that are violating Google’s quality guidelines. With that in mind, it seems like a good idea to take a
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Even before the Penguin update, a lot of webmasters had been getting messages from Google about questionable links. This appears to have been only one of Google’s major efforts in early 2012 to crack down on search engine manipulation and black hat tactics. With that in mind,
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There are a number of reasons your site might have been hit by Google’s recent Penguin update(formerly known as the Web-spam update). Barring any unintended penalties, the algorithm has wiped out sites engaging in web-spam and black hat SEO tactics. In other words, Google has targeted any
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