Google Penguin Update.

You know Google Penguin 3.0 Update??

Google Penguin 3 Update hit on Friday / Saturday (October 17th and 18th).

Quite a number of Blackhats are reporting they got hit hard by the looks of it.

Targets obvious spam, obvious out of context links and obvious brute force linking (examples given are footer links, blogrolls and some pbns – private blog networks) – not the sort of links you want to point at your main site. Some are reporting 301s hit too – home pages disappearing and affiliate sites being penalised (although a black hat affiliate site isn’t going to last long these days without somebody who knows what they are doing at the helm). Suffice to say it will take a couple of weeks for any serious analysis to get published .

This update blindsided most third party rank visibility tools leading many to think we are not finished…. yet

Penguin 3 was nowhere near as keenly felt as Penguin 1 and 2 but then again you would expect most professional optimisers to have gotten well out of Google’s way on this. Blackhats – naturally – are the ones that will be the final judge on how aggressive this update was – as it seems to be targeted at them.