Comments on: Google Penguin 4.0, Possum, And Craziness Update September 2016

By: Gopal Sonawane

Gopal Sonawane — Sun, 23 May 2021 06:04:42 +0000

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By: hothadmin

hothadmin — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:34:01 +0000

In reply to Adwait. The strategy is the same. Links & OnPage are still king. You shouldn't have to use the disavow tool as much anymore as links won't "hurt" you (according to Google). You may still need to use it if you get a Webmaster Tool / Search Console unnatural links warning or if someone is blasting you for whatever reason.

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 03:16:17 +0000

Thanks for the explanation (and updated insertion) guys. I’m particularly pleased to know that only pages are being affected – not side wide. I’ve been so busy building sites for others that my own looks like crap and is falling down-down-down! lol Like Nick, I too have some old sites (2009 as well! Must have been a good year!) that I should take a look at.. who knows what I’ll find!

With so much change in the digital realm, it’s great to have The Hoth as a cutting edge source for staying ‘in the know’… my ‘secret weapon’. Keep up the great work! 🙂

Sally

By: Oemsie

Oemsie — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:53:54 +0000

Great to see the shift from demote to devalue, very hard to keep track of and control the potentially thousands of spam links pointing to authority websites. Hopefully Google’s algo can identify and ignore the majority of them.

By: Dean Signori

Dean Signori — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 00:03:04 +0000

I think its great for everyone in terms of now people will be focused on real looking well managed dummy sites with good content to help rank clients sites – this will also help fill google with quality less spammy content- its also good that negative seo will now probably not work anymore (although link detox checks should still be done)
Is onbvious that links still work its just more care has to be taken on how to get them, often people keep tier 1 and possibly tier 2 clear of spam so i guess it comes down to how deep google will go as usually tier 3 can be spammed like wildfire and some juice filters safely through – if people with tier 1 and tier 2 spam have seen drops then we know they check 3 layers back !

By: Jona123

Jona123 — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:37:07 +0000

I have been waiting for this real time Real Time Google Penguin for months and after the release, I almost felt like the massive Penguin 2.1 in 2013. I personally feel this penguin update may just be a pre-test to check how “Real Time Penguin” will continue to work. Also, the real-time aspect of Google’s Penguin 4.0 can affect different business markets.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:24:51 +0000

A couple of things:

1. I saw someone mention a five-page website. I have never sent backlinks to a site of less than 18 or so pages, because experience taught me it wasn’t worth the trouble.

2. People might want to know that Google recently discovered that over 50% of mobile users will bail if a site takes longer than three seconds to load. Given that mobile now accounts for more views than desktop, this is a serious consideration to be aware of.

By: Adwait

Adwait — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:11:56 +0000

So now what will be the strategy for generating backlinks? I think SEO people will now have to use disvow tool more frequently to keep their backlink profile clean.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:24:18 +0000

Very curious indeed to see how these updates shake out. Noticing all sorts of flux in the ranking. Thanks for the information. Very helpful as backing up factors we have been noticing .

By: Mayfly

Mayfly — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:39:06 +0000

I’ve seen lots of different changes over different sites. Nothing seems to be consistent. Some over-optimised sites dropping in rank, whereas other over-optimised sites are ranking higher.

Will probably be able to have something more conclusive after it’s fully rolled out.

Nice article BTW!