Google Penguin 4.0 - it looks like it is here!

[JustUs]

Site 1: Self hosted Wordpress site that has been out of the serps for primary KW for 6 months reappeared position 2. No links built to site for a year.

Site 2: Business website. Built on WordPress.com built 2700 links to 6/18/15 moved to position 4 from position 33.

Site 3: still building spam links, currently 19,000. Been building since 11/23/15. Legal area. Moved to position 5 from 10.

site 4: still building spam, 15,000 currently. Same time period as #3. Moved from page 5 to position 6.

site 5: still building spam. Same time period as #3. Same niche as #4. Moved from page 6 to position 8.

Site 6: still building spam. Currently 13,000. Same time period as #3, same niche. Moved from page 5 to page three.

Site 7: Stopped building links over a year ago. Realty niche. Moved from page 2 to position 1

Site 8: As site 7, same niche. Moved from page 2 to position 2.

sites 9 & 10. Same as site 8. Moved from pages 3 to positions 3 and four.

Site 11: reputation site for Realtor in sites 7 - 10. Moved from page 2 to position 8.

site 12: Filler site for sites 7 - 11. Same as site 8. Moved mid page 2 to position 10.

site 13: built on Weebly. No link building for a year. Demoted from position 1 to page 5 two months ago. Moved to page three.

Reputation client in the NL - own all links pages 1 - 7 for name and areas he was defamed in.
Reputation client in NY all disparaging information removed pages 1 - 10.
Reputation client in FL, removed all negative information in first five pages.

Doing fairly well and all links were spam links. More sites than this, but these are representative.

 

[SEO FOX]

Is this real, penguin is now ??

 

[Jack Torrance]

Site 1: Self hosted Wordpress site that has been out of the serps for primary KW for 6 months reappeared position 2. No links built to site for a year.

Site 2: Business website. Built on WordPress.com built 2700 links to 6/18/15 moved to position 4 from position 33.

Site 3: still building spam links, currently 19,000. Been building since 11/23/15. Legal area. Moved to position 5 from 10.

site 4: still building spam, 15,000 currently. Same time period as #3. Moved from page 5 to position 6.

site 5: still building spam. Same time period as #3. Same niche as #4. Moved from page 6 to position 8.

Site 6: still building spam. Currently 13,000. Same time period as #3, same niche. Moved from page 5 to page three.

Site 7: Stopped building links over a year ago. Realty niche. Moved from page 2 to position 1

Site 8: As site 7, same niche. Moved from page 2 to position 2.

sites 9 & 10. Same as site 8. Moved from pages 3 to positions 3 and four.

Site 11: reputation site for Realtor in sites 7 - 10. Moved from page 2 to position 8.

site 12: Filler site for sites 7 - 11. Same as site 8. Moved mid page 2 to position 10.

site 13: built on Weebly. No link building for a year. Demoted from position 1 to page 5 two months ago. Moved to page three.

Reputation client in the NL - own all links pages 1 - 7 for name and areas he was defamed in.
Reputation client in NY all disparaging information removed pages 1 - 10.
Reputation client in FL, removed all negative information in first five pages.

Doing fairly well and all links were spam links. More sites than this, but these are representative.

What type of spam? Blog comment blasts? Wiki blasts?

 

[JustUs]

What type of spam? Blog comment blasts? Wiki blasts?

1.
At every door-way,
ere one enters,
one should spy round,
one should pry round
for uncertain is the witting
that there be no foeman sitting,
within, before one on the floor

63.
Each man who is wise and would wise be called
must ask and answer aright.
Let one know thy secret, but never a second, --
if three a thousand shall know.

65.
Each man should be watchful and wary in speech,
and slow to put faith in a friend.
for the words which one to another speaks
he may win reward of ill.

Havamal, Snorri Sturleson, circa 1345

 

[Kralj187]

No changes for me, yet.

 

[SoccerLover]

I didn't noticed any sort of change yet

 

[Aty]

Not sure what this update is about but so far nothing unusual by me, except some small improvements.

 

[asap1]

All my sites went up, some from around 9-10 to 3-4 but I cant say 100% it was this update that did it since I did some SEO recently.

A FB page im spamming went up from 8-9 to a stable 3, im also doing SEO but honestly it was to early for the links to jump the rankings like that.

This FB page has 100% spam going to it.

 

[fc-dh]

some sites up, some sites down but nothing outside the normal fluctuations

 

[blackcatburgular]

Based in the UK. Seeing big decrease on organic traffic graph on Ahrefs but, when checking manually no big drops for main keywords. However, the Ahrefs data looks at USA, UK, Germany, France etc. So it's possible the site has been hit in other countries but not the UK.....yet.

 

[Worldwidebacklinks]

Definitely here in Aus, massive movement especially with some local sites.

 

[MisterF]

Some have gone up, some have gone down - same old, same old.

 

[LeanLow]

Based in the UK. Seeing big decrease on organic traffic graph on Ahrefs but, when checking manually no big drops for main keywords. However, the Ahrefs data looks at USA, UK, Germany, France etc. So it's possible the site has been hit in other countries but not the UK.....yet.

My UK site 30%+ up in organic.

 

[edwinmichal]

I see 10% down in my organic traffic

 

[fullyniche]

one of my site have gone up.. up.... (Link Building Strategy: Web 2.0+ with Unique Content and Social Signals, Infographics)

 

[eLeSlash]

I dont think its an algo update, just normal serp movement, but lets wait 1-3 days so that 'changes' propagate to all datacenter google owns.

 

[Jack Torrance]

I dont think its an algo update, just normal serp movement, but lets wait 1-3 days so that 'changes' propagate to all datacenter google owns.

This is normal SERP movement? People are reporting recovery on Penguin hit sites. It's almost 100% guaranteed Penguin.

 

[cspro01]

no changes on my site SERP yet.

 

[gutshot]

Seeing either no changes or positive movement here so far.

 

[uesat]

A little bit of positive movement up, but nothing definite