Google has established the release of Penguin 2.1, the spam fighting algorithm. Because, the update is a better version of Google’s Penguin 2, Google has named it 2.1.
Matt Cutts, head of Google spam team shared the news of the update on Twitter saying that it would impact 1 percent of the entire search.
Penguin Updates:
- Penguin was announced on April 24, 2012 and given that 5 updates have been released by Google, counting the newest Penguin 2.1.
- Penguin 1.1 – Algorithm targeted at web spam impacted 3 percent of the hunt queries.
- Penguin 1.2 – Algorithm aimed at web spam and especially the websites violate Google’s quality rule. Impacted less than 0.1 percent of the English-language searches.
- Penguin 1.3 – The update affected 0.3 percent of English queries and a little percentage of queries in Spanish, French, and Italian.
- Penguin 2 – A main update that impacted more SEOs and webmasters was according to Google, improved at stopping spam.
- Penguin 2.1 – The latest from Google is said to impact 1 percent of all search.
Strike with Penguin?
Penguin is a part of Google’s search algorithm that looks after websites that are spamming Google’s search consequences but position well. The update goes after websites that may have bought paid links.
If your website is hit by Penguin, you will observe a fall in the traffic by today or tomorrow. To get well from the update, you will have to disown bad links or remove them physically. Since, Penguin is an automatic process, filing a review request will not help. Your website will get well when Google will see that every bad link has been detached.