70% Said Google's Penguin 2.1 Update Hurt them

70% Said Google's Penguin 2.1 Update Hurt them, What's your Opinion??

 

What sample size are those percentages based on?

 

I'd also like to know more about the study and the test group? What was the size of the test group, etc.

 

@SEOArbiterJoanne @danasurvey I read Article on seoroundtable and took image from the article

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-penguin21-poll-18411.html

 

First of all you need to learn to reference the material you use as otherwise you post just makes no sense.
Secondly, you can't draw conclusion from those stats... Big websites get considerably more traffic and diversified so if 9 small websites go down and 1 big website goes up then 90% of people are losing ranking which in fact is incorrect.

 

Agreed with the poster above. Also, if a business was getting 1 mil. hits a day and now it's getting only 600,000 hits a day that business is not going to be as negatively effected as a business that was getting 5k hits a day and now it's getting only 3k hits a day. Lower traffic site owners are more likely to complain about the drop than some large businesses.

 

Yes, I agree that most of the websites got hit by Google Penguin 2.1 update, some got recovered slowly, some are yet to be recovered. Its difficult to recover after Google penalty hit because it takes 8 months -1 year, depending upon the severity.

 

All the sites I worked hard for were hit...and my blogs that i never worked for are ranking on page 1 of Google.

 

hehe, it actually boosted me even higher

 

Why are people only focussed on search engine traffic.There are many other ways to get targeted traffic, guys.

 

My website ranking will be boost after Penguin Update..

 

worst sufferers are ecommerce websites. and it takes a lot time for them to recover. and now a days most of the website are products based so may be it is true.

 

That is the number one reason why we should not depend solely on SEO

 

This is one of the best posts I have seen on this forum! People need to realize there are other sources of traffic.

 

Penguin penalized websites with artificial websites - so most of those sites where the site owners had employed people to do off-page SEO were penalized. Since these are the only people you see in webmaster or SEO forums, you can see that a large percentage of them were affected.

 

Lost half my traffic with Penguin. Have not recovered, despite removing many links and disavowing others.

 

I was not affected by this update. Rankings remained stable

 

Overall my ranks stayed quite the same for most of my websites (a few minor changes but not much).

 

People who want to get fast result and ranking those are included in 70% and 30% People are safe because they work always quality with patience..

 

Google Penguin 2.1 had some impact on the rankings of the web properties that we track. A couple of them tanked.