One of my businesses has a bunch of pages in the local search arena...Recently they got smoked from G. I am going to be keeping track of the journey to recovery...Some of the site is still ranking very high..Some of it has been toasted ..Lets see what I can do about it..

In April 2012 Google released a new algorithm update called the Penguin. As a result many webmasters lost a huge amount of traffic from Google and in some cases lost all their traffic. There was much speculation during the time about what the root cause of this loss was, but over the last month or two, a few patterns have appeared.

If you are not sure whether or not your website was hit as a result of the Google Penguin Update then the best way to find out is by looking at your...