Here is a quality infographic by Liverpool based Glow New Media providing some basic info for beginners about the latest Google update Penguin 3.0. The infographic includes info about what Penguin is, history, what it targets and other things to avoid: I hope you enjoy the infographic and let me know what you think. Via: http://www.glow-internet.com/infographics/SEO-what-you-need-to-know-about-google-penguin-3.aspx
I wonder about competitors deliberately ruining your Google rankings by adding links to these types of sites. Is there a way for google to determine whether you or someone else placed those links there?
Good summation. @joe1 - there's a disavow tool, but really there's no surefire way to protect yourself beyond using best practices like ensuring your site itself doesn't go against the webmaster guidelines.
Excellent info graphic. This is perhaps one of the best overviews of the Penguin algorithm that I have seen. Hats off to the people who produced it.
Inforgraphic is really the best way to provide interesting and engaging content to the users and the most important thing here is the representation is easily absorbed by the targeted visitors as well as benefiting them in many ways.
This was actually one of the issues that needed to be tackled and which lead to the delay in the release of 3.0. Surely enough Google found a way to overcome this... by neglecting its existence and impact. As strange and illogical as that sounds one of the hot issues that SEOs had with previous updates still stands. Your competitors can still execute Negative SEO on your website so you have to be always attentive and ready to react.
I dont think Big G can determine that - SEO can be a dirty game everyone wants to dominate the serps.
I've been hit by penguin 3.0 on two of my sites quite bad. I used a tool to build links automatically called link emperor. How would one go about removing those bad links? As they all seem to fall under what not to do when linking. I've used to Google Webmaster to find the links but how do you remove them as most of the sites do not have anywhere to contact to ask to remove. Also what would be the best white hat methods to rank a site? It seems everything I read from people talking about SEO is that every method you do is wrong. So what are the best white hat methods to stick by?
Wow, this was seriously so easy to digest all the information via this inforgraphic. Fortunately my sites aren't affected.