tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post4843996446771522652..comments2023-03-25T02:45:14.668-05:00Comments on My Mountain: Why Google's Penguin Update Will FailDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02251407766640894724noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-56156862964091540422013-01-03T17:27:08.387-06:002013-01-03T17:27:08.387-06:00Just a bit of an epilog. The site has eventually c...Just a bit of an epilog. The site has eventually come back to page 1, although not in the top position as before. Traffic is still down about 1/3, but its being made up for by some additional sites I created with fresh, good content. <br />For a follow up to this story, you can read this post by a guy who helped bring me back.<br />http://www.calosicre.com/a-website-comeback-story-recovering-after-google-pandapenguin-updates/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-19375994104678404552012-10-03T13:24:26.001-05:002012-10-03T13:24:26.001-05:00I really hope this new update fails. I am sick of ...I really hope this new update fails. I am sick of seeing my websites loose their ranking on the search results pages. I have lost a good amount of traffic due to the new <a href="http://www.penguinwatch.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Penguin</a> update. Thank you for keeping my hopes up.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13331973835634314063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-83833871023506269072012-06-05T21:11:16.549-05:002012-06-05T21:11:16.549-05:00Matt Cutts said tonight that Google will create a ...Matt Cutts said tonight that Google will create a tool to allow webmaster to "disavow" bad links. JUST like you called for, dude!! Great call! Maybe Google read this post.<br /><br />http://searchengineland.com/live-blog-you-a-with-matt-cutts-at-smx-advanced-123513<br /><br />It's true! Penguin is failing!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-38377211384499168332012-06-05T11:24:25.462-05:002012-06-05T11:24:25.462-05:00Google has also done a lot to hurt small business ...Google has also done a lot to hurt small business people who have put up their own sites and who had good content but don't follow web stuff every day and violated google's link and keyword stuffing rules. Now they may be forced to set up new sites and have lost millions in business. Small business is vital for the US economy. I can't imagine they'll use any of google's other products because of this change. I know I wont. Might be time to short google's stock?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-59117780281325215272012-06-05T11:11:54.058-05:002012-06-05T11:11:54.058-05:00If you search Tulum Blog the third result is an ex...If you search Tulum Blog the third result is an expired domain! I mean come on Google why am I on page 15 and an expired domain is better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-60621047408958413892012-06-04T09:08:50.284-05:002012-06-04T09:08:50.284-05:00Please don't update your crap site with qualit...Please don't update your crap site with quality content because once Google sees the quality content it will have no choice but to demote it! Please put more craps there instead to stay at page #1! Welcome to the new algorithm!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-76981816137423110512012-05-16T09:58:53.357-05:002012-05-16T09:58:53.357-05:00So lots of us are guilty, because we played by Goo...So lots of us are guilty, because we played by Google's rules. If they want to stop us from buying links, then they should simply devalue those links. We're not stupid... if they don't work, we wont' buy them.<br /><br />But the question is, where do we go from here, Google? You're going to deprive your users of good content just because of some links pointing to it are bad? How's that workin' for ya?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-30497614802548424422012-05-16T08:41:16.315-05:002012-05-16T08:41:16.315-05:00Have 10+ year old website selling a software produ...Have 10+ year old website selling a software product. Whitehat Seo all the way, some links but only a handfull manually added to directories and as many industry related sites as I could. No focus on backlinks just content and we still went down. We went from page 1 to page 5, traffic was down 57% but continues to fall and now we are hitting 70%. <br /><br />I think Google will have to just devalue links all together. There will be a rush for the black hat SEO guys to flood a site with spammy links in order to move up themselves. I bet many of the 'buy links' sites are raking in the money already.<br /><br />As far as Google's quality. We have been in the middle of researching hardware for a new computer, the results were bad on Google so we switched to Bing. I do not want to search a software and 'about.com' come up with a post talking about general information that is years old. This latest update from Google just moved Bing up another notch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8718358.post-7018027082096126392012-05-15T19:13:12.703-05:002012-05-15T19:13:12.703-05:00Ya, I'm in the same boat. Basically I had 3+ a...Ya, I'm in the same boat. Basically I had 3+ authority sites completely tank, only to be replaced by utter spam.<br /><br />Yes, I bought links. Yes, I used blog networks. No, I didn't use junk content... Spun, but manually.<br /><br />I spent a lot of time on that content. Google rewarded me for it. I held #1 for 2+ years. Penguin killed that site and near all my others.<br /><br />I agree, it will fail.Joshnoreply@blogger.com