Google Penguin Update











Launched Date: - 24 April 2012

The objective of Penguin updates is to decrease ranking of those sites who are involved in link spamming and keyword stuffing or black-hat practices.

Issues Addressed in Penguin Update

·       Link Spamming

It is black hat practice which has the motive of manipulating the Page Rank or ranking of a site in Google's search results. It is basically posting of irrelevant website links on blogs, forums, website in order to increase rank of website on Google Search Results.

 Examples of Link Spamming

·     Buying and Selling of links that has Good Domain and Page Authority.  It consists of the exchange   of money for good links.

·      Excessive link exchanges i.e A links to website B and b links to Website A.
·      Making Web pages which consist of keywords only and less relevant content.

Use automated programs or services to link to your site.

       Keyword Stuffing 

Keyword stuffing is a practice of putting so many keywords in web pages of websites in order to rank website easily on Google Search Results.

How to Recover from Penalty

·      Maintain Keyword Density and prevent Keyword Stuffing in Content of Web Pages.

·     Find bad Links through tools likes Dr Link Check and remove bad links or 404 Errors from   website.





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