There has been a lot of talk about Google over the past few months, as they brought out another new update named "Google Penguin". I wonder if your website has been penalized or your rankings even rank high.
Yah my website also lost ranking and traffic although its very small amount but still affected of Penguin.
To recover in Google Penguin avoid duplicate content, cloaking, keyword stuffing and black hat techniques in building your links, just make your fresh and unique content of your website and use only the white hat techniques to build your links, it will help yo to increase your site traffics and backlinks.
Lots of Sites got effected due to Penguin updates...may be one of the reason..I can say big reason is Content and bad link building
Penguin has affected sites with UNIQUE content AND NO SPAM Links - that has been scrapped and the scrapers are now outranking the original content!
Dont over optimize your website for a single keyword, keep uploading the quality content, don"t copy.
Many pages are penalized after penguin. It's true and you can believe. This is an anti-spam algorithm possibly working against automated back links.
Everyone complaining about google's updates, let me ask you 1 question : what search engine do you use? If you don't like Google's unfair practices, and changes - you always have the option to boycott them altogether.
I lost a heck of a lot of years of working to get ahead from penguin. I'm sorry the penguin isn't about content or spam fighting. Its about corporations taking the keywords. I'm complaining. Google massacred a bunch of us so that they can make another billion dollars from walmart and the other idiots. I use BING now. Did it help? No. I still lost those years building my sites up.
I really thanks Google for this update. Its because now only we have some hope that websites with quality content can dominate SERP,not automated ,quick backlink build sites.
I'm in general agreement. I looked at one of my keywords yesterday and two sites held 20 of the first 30 SERPs between them. I looked at another today, and one company has 29 out of the first 36 positions. I used to be on the first page for both of those keywords, now I'm not in the top 50. There isn't any room for me with these companies monopolizing the pages.
Several sites of mine get affected google penguin..After i check..I found many blogs copied my site's content..I was so busy to report them to google ..Until now the site has'nt recovered yet..Because of this..my traffic go down until 50%..