[Sept 2016] New Penguin update could be an opportinity for blackhat SEO

Penguin is now more granular. Penguin now devalues spam by adjusting ranking based on spam signals, rather than affecting ranking of the whole site.

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FrozenSpade said:

Penguin is now officially part of google's core algorithm and it's working real time now. This means that you will see penguin related chances a lot faster and you no longer have to wait for a penguin refresh (which used to take months or years).

But what is more important is another change. I have this from the official google webmasters blog:



Previously you would risk your authority website even if you did some blackhat SEO on one page only. You would risk getting the whole site penalized.

But from now Penguin only penalizes the page with the blackhat SEO, leaving the rest of the website intact. This opens up new opportunities to blackhat SEOs. You no longer will have to start all over again. You could try PBNs on one page, paid links on another page, cloaking, spamming, backdoors on another page.

Let me know what you think.

Link to the google blog post http://nullrefer.com/?https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/09/penguin-is-now-part-of-our-core.html

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Fix Johnson said:

Here is a site that has a number of links to my own website. Do you think it would be considered "spam" and receive penalty....nothing in Webmaster Tools ? webring.org is link to site

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Penguin is now more granular. Penguin now devalues spam by adjusting ranking based on spam signals, rather than affecting ranking of the whole site.

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Lauriat said:

If what they say is true then blackhat seo just became much easier, if you get penalty for over optimized anchor texts all you have to do is lower the exact match % and voila next time google crawls your site you are back.

Sounds to good to be true. There must be something we don't know yet.

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