Google just announced a big Penguin update (first one in two years) and that these penalties from spammy backlinks will now happen in real time.

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What is Penguin?

Penguin is the name of Google's penalty for spammy backlinks.

If you have spammed, irrelevant links to your site then your pages can be penalized.

Why Should I Care? I Don't Spam Backlinks

Spammed backlinks are often created by blackhatters...

It is relatively impossible to make money from an online business if you don’t understand the way that search engines work to bring in traffic. With literally millions, possibly billions of web sites online, sites like Google and Bing are the main places where people go to find the products and services they are looking for and that is because they provide consumers with the most relevant results related to specific search terms, therefore eliminating the need to sort through large amounts of...

In early March, Matt Cutts announced news of Google's upcoming Penguin 2.0 update[/URL]. Since the announcement, the SEO world has been in constant anticipation of what to expect and ultimately how the update will affect websites and rankings all across the web. To put some of our minds at ease, earlier today the Google engineer had confirmed through his Twitter account that Penguin 2.0 is due to make it's official debut sometime in the next few weeks.

Via the leading Sydney SEO providers:...

Google’s head of spam, Matt Cutts, recently revealed hints of upcoming Google Penguin and Panda updates for the coming months of 2013. Cutts made this revelation at the SMX West (Search Marketing Expo) which was held just a few hours ago over in the U.S.

Read the full article here: http://www.bigvisionseo.com.au/googl...-smx-west-2013

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Google's Penguin update is also called Over optimization penalty update.

Today, we want to change gears a little and expound on the over-optimization penalty and linking.

By discovering what NOT to do, you can gain a better understanding of what TO do and find out specific SEO strategies that will make sense for your website.

As we usually say, no one knows Google’s exact algorithm or what Google is ready to penalize. All we can do is take what we...