• It does not look like it is focused on improving search quality, strangely enough.
• It seems like it has hit the biggest Blackhat spam offenders, but not all of them. It also effects some Greyhat  spammy backlink manipulation methods.
• Does not appear to be connect with on-page SEO practices in particular, however outlinks could have been considered. Google released several other updates at around the same time, which makes it hard to diagnose which update caused the penalty.
• It Appears to have targeted a larger number of web service industry sites which may have been engaging in spammy blackhat techniques.
• It is not yet known if Penguin will be a rolling update, but first indication suggest it may well be.
• Surprisingly, it looks like higher rankings for a lot of very odd, very spammy types of search results in many of the spammiest of spammy verticals/SERPs, which has frustrated many SEOs to no end.

Rand Fishkin has also crossposted about it on G+. Please also encircled SEOmoz on Google+… to stay updated with SEOMoz.org WB+ videos

Nevertheless, the results still seem to be unexpected for many who have not followed the so called link building methods, was there a bug in the code? What does Google want us to do? Whitehat? Content building?

Find out more about the 4 Phased SEO Link Building Campaigns that I offer which have not been affected by Penguin.

Jefferson Graham, from USA TODAY interviews Google’s Matt Cutts (who knows the algorithm) and talks about how to get your website ranking on top of the SERPs. Matt Cutts gives 5 so called common sense, basic SEO tips for us all down here in the lower realms trying to guess the algorithm…

Matt Cutts said Google refreshes its entire index every month or so, so they can find many website within days.

How do I get my website so people can find it? Here is some of what I got from the Matt Cutts interview:

- Use keywords on your page that people are searching for
- Use the tags for title and description so they look good in the SERPs
- Use and employ Social Media SEM for backlinks and Blog to Get Better Visibility on Google
- Use google.com/addurl.html to submit the root domain of your site to Google
- Use google.com/webmasters to submit your sitemap.xml file to Google

So, this is only a scratch of the scratch of the surface of SEO, but if you give this a try, it could help your website or Blog to Get Better Visibility on Google.

Watch the video…

Enjoy the game…

View SEOmoz’s Social Media Marketing Guide

Just take a look at the everyday responses to the questions about SEO. Then tell me how you can afford not to do SEO on your website?

I simply had to post it on my blog. Enjoy!

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The Thin Wedge of Profitability Between Apathy & Spam

When search engineers fight spam they do not like to flag too many false positives, but they do want to flag as many of the manipulative behaviors as they can to minimize the manipulative editorial influence of external parties. In SEO many things are good only in moderation.

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Flora says:
December 29, 2011 at 7:36 am (Edit)

You can awyals tell an expert! Thanks for contributing.

Ha ha, yep that’s me alrighty, the expert, you can ‘awyals’… Huh ‘awyals’, what does that mean?

He he, You got any good comment spam to share?

I always make sure to delete the comment spam so it does not get your IP Address blocked.

Anyone had your IP Address blocked?

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