Penguin Reverse Engineered VIDEO

@jon_xx_x : By Any chance, your similar websites are they hosted on the same web hosting provider ? Do you use unique IP still on the same web hosting provider? Is there a pattern possible down that road ?

@Expertpeon : Thanks for the reply, rep given.

I agree. It's both.

The ease with which some of you can be taken advantage of is alarming.

I know it's cynical and sucks and a lot of you are really sensitive to such suggestions; but - as a general heuristic principle (i.e. a 'rule of thumb') - one is almost always assured an accurate appraisal of these things when disregarding them outright: When provided with 'free' information, algorithm reverse engineerings that are nothing of the definitive sort, to disregard them outright when any sort of financial motivation is attached to their presentation is the proper - and trustable - course of action.

ExpertPeon gets 'wordy' and it is often difficult to pull a salient take-away from his posts; but - he couldn't be more correct and true, here: Penguin is an utterly negative update/algorithmic run. Invented to punish those that have exploited the gaping holes in Google's link-based model; not to "reward" (as per Cutts' PR spin) "high quality" websites. And this is painfully obvious to those in-the-know.

abysse said:

@jon_xx_x : By Any chance, your similar websites are they hosted on the same web hosting provider ? Do you use unique IP still on the same web hosting provider? Is there a pattern possible down that road ?

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Separate IPs, designs etc.
I did put a ad banner on the sites, but changed the name, made a few different sizes, etc, I don't think that would have mattered.
I mean they were all quality sites, with 100% unique written content.

Reviving this thread. Regarding on-site penalty for over-optimization... How can a site/page be considered overly optimized, if it contains the keyword in URL, title, H1 and first paragraph? To me that sounds like it's exactly what's needed in order to determine what the damn text is all about, so why would that get penalized?