Comments on: Penguin 3.0

By: Gotch

Gotch — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:36:31 +0000

Thanks for the quick post and your findings. Definitely spot on. It was pretty easy to diagnose why my a few of my client’s took a hit and it was really no different than the previous updates.

Low quality links (pages with massive OBLs, irrelevant directories, poorly designed PBNs, etc) + a lack of high-quality relevant links. There are also a ton of other factors I saw on my side, but this was the most obvious.

Thanks for the writeup.

– Gotch

By: Make Money Expert

Make Money Expert — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:57:11 +0000

Thanks for the update, seems pretty point blank what happened, and your recovery guide is great, thanks again.

By: EasyBridging

EasyBridging — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:37:50 +0000

I’ve seen a pile of sites that got hit in the previous Penguin roll outs, that I’d given up but left online because they were getting bits and bats from Bing and Yahoo start to rank again.

They are not back to were they were originally, however I haven’t done any link clean ups or anything, just left them alone. The traffic increase is nominal but they’ve gone from not being listed in the first 20 or so search result pages to being in the first four pages of results for some semi-generic search terms.

By: Fernando Biz

Fernando Biz — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:03:36 +0000

Thanks for posting about the update. As you said some sites got hit some are same place and some rolled up. I had 13 of my client sites dropped in rankings on SERP’s every client who help #1 spot dropped several spots and I was wondering what to do to quickly as they are struggling with leads these days. Manly my 4 waste management niche clients in London. I was owning top 3 spots for literally 25 every high searched term in the niche till the 18th and now back with time to grind. Let me know what you guys think should be the most effective way forward for faster turn around and climb.

By: Shaun Preece

Shaun Preece — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:34:16 +0000

Outstanding blog post as always Greg. Can always count on you guys for up to the minute ACCURATE information on anything SEO related.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:29:51 +0000

I experienced the exact same as Adam.

I will add one observation. The site that was negatively affected contained the target keyword in the domain name with two other letters after it.
Unfortunately, this actually is the brand name.

Seems as though the algo is fine tuning what the anchor text – on-page relationship should look like. More so than just, “if you want to rank, broaden your anchor text.” Because this site’s anchors were very broad.

Thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:02:37 +0000

I’m seeing the same thing on my end. Only 1 client affected and I can see why.

Not much new here. Thanks for the update!