MUST READ: Google's Penguin Analysis

[bboyspyder]

This is a very informative study based on big amounts of actual data about site movements and the type of SEO done on them.

http://www.micrositemasters.com/blog...ways-to-do-so/

My few words on it. Niche backlinks are much more valuable (hurrah for 3way link exchange), diversify anchor text to it looks natural otherwise penalty is a sure thing.

[universal4]

Great article....good share bboy...

Rick
Universal4

[Jane Parker]

Noawadyas these theme is extremely important for me. I thinks that some of my sites were downed by Penguin. So all information about it is very important! Thanks for sharing!

[F-L-C]

Nice article, thanks, about time someone shed some light on the matter

[freeslots]

Interesting article. I guess in our case the answer to the popular question in the comments to the article, how to determine the niche relevancy, is quite obvious. Now I have another question: when you follow up on your own rankings, do you keep an eye on the competitors too?

When the whole Penguin hoo-ha started a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that one of my main competitors completely disappeared from the SERP's (after ranking in top 5 for many months). As of today even searching by its quite unique domain name you cannot get to the site, meaning it was completely banned, though it is still indexed. Looking at their backlinks in OSE you kinda stop wondering why this happened - the site is linked from over 2,000 (!) unique domains with nearly 11,000 links. Now, how can that be considered natural? Rest assured, I am not competing with Yahoo! and alike.

So have you noticed anything similar happening to your competitors, or (god forbid) to your own sites?

[SlotsAff]

superb article - in short, don't be lazy and make your SEO practices look natural

[bboyspyder]

@freeslots

I haven't noticed anyone get banned in my niche and my own site is flying in the SERPs. Also the Penguin update brings an update of PageRank so be sure to take a look if there is any changes in your PR.

[usaonlinecasino]

nice to read the article.

[cass]

Thanks for sharing bboy. We all know G is fickle in another couple of months from now its algo might change again since seo's would have caught up on this one.

[Ryanloop]

Thanks for sharing this great article! It’s nice to see someone doing a Penguin-post mortem based on data instead of shots in the dark.

Regards

[OnlineCasinoGames360]

You should diversify anchor text and your URL to look more natural

https://www.gpwa.org
www.gpwa.org
gpwa.org
http://gpwa.org

[freeslots]

@bboyspyder

My PR went up indeed (without any actual change in the WMT though)

[universal4]

PR???
I thought this discussion was about ranking and the serps not the green bar.....lol

Rick
Universal4

[elgoog]

Freeslots was refering to this

@freeslots

I haven't noticed anyone get banned in my niche and my own site is flying in the SERPs. Also the Penguin update brings an update of PageRank so be sure to take a look if there is any changes in your PR.

[GCG]

I think Google can not be trusted for their claims and actions it's a spoiled pet that has become a beast.

IMO google uses the webmastertools to identify link rings as those I added were affected and the others were not (that much).