{"id":2476,"date":"2012-06-07T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T21:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ypm.com\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2012-11-02T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:58:42","slug":"google-penguin-poll-65-of-seos-hurt-by-penguin-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/google-penguin-poll-65-of-seos-hurt-by-penguin-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Penguin Poll: 65% Of SEOs Hurt By Penguin Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2477\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/google-penguin-poll-65-of-seos-hurt-by-penguin-update\/google-penguin-poll-1337978197\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2477\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2477\" class=\" wp-image-2477  colorbox-2476\" title=\"google-penguin-poll-1337978197\" src=\"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google-penguin-poll-1337978197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google-penguin-poll-1337978197.png 240w, http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/google-penguin-poll-1337978197-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: www.SEORoundTable.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/penguin-poll-15207.html\">recent poll<\/a> over at\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\"><em>SEORoundTable.com<\/em><\/a> has determined that 65% of over 1,000 respondents reported traffic losses thanks to the Google Penguin update back in April.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you unaware, Penguin is what Google&#8217;s major Web Spam update is popularly known as. Essentially it was an update to Google&#8217;s search algorithm that went after (and often penalized) websites that had unnatural links pointing to them or were linking out unnaturally to other websites.<\/p>\n<p>In Google&#8217;s eyes (and according to their <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769\">Webmaster Guidelines)<\/a>\u00a0links that appear to be paid for, come from bad neighborhoods (gambling sites, pharmaceutical sites, link farms, etc.) or seem like they are trying to &#8220;game the system&#8221; rather than provide true value to users, are unnatural, and thus a site is called out for it.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, people who have suffered after the Penguin update have reported rankings disappearances and severe losses of traffic. While others have reported traffic increases or no change at all.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/penguin-poll-15207.html\">Read more about this recent poll over at SEO Round Table&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll over at\u00a0SEORoundTable.com has determined that 65% of over 1,000 respondents reported traffic losses thanks to the Google Penguin update back in April. For those of you unaware, Penguin is what Google&#8217;s major Web Spam update is popularly known as. 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