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On the morning of June 26th, MozCast registered a record high temperature of 113 degrees. This is an initial investigation into the possible algorithm update, and a potential partial-match domain (PMD) connection. Via Robin Good 
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June 27, 2013 5:31 AM
Google has updated its algorithms again yesterday, and by looking at the amount of changes in the SERPs this does not look like something minor. According to the research and analysis done by Dr Pete on the MOZ blog, the web sites that have been most affected are those that utilize in their domain name some of the keywords for which they are being searched for. These are called PDM (partial domain matches) and data shows that these have all been strongly affected. So, if you own a web site that utilizes some of your niche keywords in its name and have seen a sudden drop in traffic or earnings since yesterday, check out the thorough analysis that Dr. Pete has done and see for yourself what is really happening. From the article intro: "If you follow our MozCast Google "weather" tracker, you may have noticed something unusual this morning – a record algorithm flux temperature of 113.3°F (the previous high was 102.2°, set on December 13, 2012). While the weather has been a bit stormy off and on since Penguin 2.0 and the announcement of 10-day rolling Panda updates, this one was still off the charts: " Informative. Useful data. 8/10 Full article: http://moz.com/blog/early-look-at-googles-june-25-algo-update
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The Risks of Submitting Your Site To Low-Quality Web Directories: Google Has Started Penalizing Them
Robin Good: If you have been submitting your blog, web site or RSS feed indiscriminately to tens of web directories, you may want to give a serious read to this report from SEOMoz.
According to the research done, Goolge has started banning and penalizing many web directories as many of these offer next to no value at all to final readers, and have been created mostly with the purpose of providing a promotional/visibility/linkback resource.
It looks like Google has decided to stop allowing these sites to pass "juice" to its listed member sites by penalizing them and in the worst cases (tens of them) to completely ban the directory from the SERPs.
From the SEOMoz original article: "...Google deindexed several directories a few weeks ago.
This event left us wondering if there was a rhyme to their reason. So we decided to do some intensive data collection of our own and try to figure out what was really going on.
We gathered a total of 2,678 directories from lists like Val Web Design, SEOTIPSY.com, SEOmoz's own directory list (just the web directories were used), and a few others, the search for clues began.
Out of the 2,678 directories, only 94 were banned – not too shabby.
However, there were 417 additional directories that had avoided being banned, but had been penalized."
Very useful data. 8/10
Full report: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger Via Robin Good, ABroaderView
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While a lot of the specifics of the Google Penguin 2.0 update are still shaking out, a great deal of information has already emerged. Here's a look at what we know, how Penguin 2.0 is affecting sites, and what to do if your site has been impacted. Via Robin Good
Robin Good's curator insight,
July 11, 2013 5:09 AM
If you are new to the Google Penguin algorithm and want to get the full story on it as well as specific, practical advice on how to counter it, Jayson DeMers on SearchEngineWatch has a good review that includes everything you need to know. In essence, the Google Penguin algo focuses on is unnatural, manipulative inbound link profiles. What makes a bad link profile? Google believes that these are the link factors that can get you in a bad situation:
The article covers the Google Penguin history, its focus, and a roadmap of steps to take to avoid being caught by it. Useful. Good summary. 7/10 Full guide: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2279845/Googles-Penguin-2.0-Algorithm-The-Definitive-Guide
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On August 15, 2012, our agency's website (which was in the middle of a complete redesign) was hit with a manual penalty by our friends over at Google. Via Robin Good
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April 4, 2013 8:02 AM
Here is a detailed report by founder Lewis Sellers, of how his web agency in the UK, Pinpoint Designs, got hit by a Google penalty without having consciously done anything tricky, and how it gradually found a way to get this penalization revoked. Key takeaways:
But there is a lot more useful stuff in the article, including all the steps taken, tools used and what to do if Google says no to your Reconsideration Request. Full article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lifting-a-manual-penalty-given-by-google-personal-experience
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"It’s been about two weeks since Google launched its Penguin Update. Google’s happy the new spam-fighting algorithm is improving things as intended."
From the original article by Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land some key points I extracted:
"...Penguin, like Panda, is a filter that gets refreshed from time-to-time. Penguin is not constantly running but rather is used to tag things as spam above-and-beyond Google’s regular spam filtering on a periodic basis.
...To further confuse matters, some who lost traffic because of Penguin might not be victims of a penalty at all. Rather, Google may have stopped allowing some links to pass credit, if they were deemed to be part of some attempt to just manipulate rankings. If sites were heavily dependent on these artificial links, they’d see a drop just because the link credit was pulled, not because they were hit with a penalty.
...if you know that you were hit by Penguin (because your traffic dropped on April 24):
-> Clean up on-page spam you know you’ve done
-> Clean up bad links you know you’re been involved with, as best you can
-> Wait for news of a future Penguin Update and see if you recover after it happens
-> If it doesn’t, try further cleaning or consider starting over with a fresh site
-> If you really believe you were a false positive, file a report as explained here
Just in, by the way, a list of WordPress plug-ins that apparently insert hidden links. If you use some of these, and they have inserted hidden links, that could have caused a penalty."
Informative. 8/10 Full article: http://searchengineland.com/google-talks-penguin-update-recover-negative-seo-120463 ;
(Suggested by Giuseppe Mauriello) Via Robin Good
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The Google Penalty Checker is a free web-based tool which allows you to instantly verify whether your web site has been penalized by one of the Google Panda or Google Penguin algorithm updates in the last two years.
The key characterizing feature of this service is that it provides a statistically significant result that highlights exactly which update impacted your website and if it was a positive or negative impact.
Invaluable.
Free to use.
If you want to monitor more than two websites, there's a PRO version. Pricing it's here: http://fruition.net/gpc-pricing/
Try it out now: http://fruition.net/sem/user/login
Use guide: http://fruition.net/google-penalty-checker-tool/usage-guide-google-penalty-checker-tool-basic-plan/
FAQ (very useful): http://fruition.net/seo/google-penalty-faq/
This is a really useful visualization of the impact of Google's updates on your websites. It allows you to see at a glance which updates had most impact and why.
The basic (free) plan allows for the checking of two websites - if you want more than that you have to upgrade to the Pro version.
Warning - the analysis of my main site had more red on it than the one shown above - and too many big red blobs really depresses me :-(
Register for a free account here: http://fruition.net/sem/user/register