
Google’s Webspam Algorithm Gets Official Name : The Penguin Update
Google Penguin is a code name for a Google algorithm update that was first announced on April 24, 2012.The update is aimed at decreasing search engine rankings of websites that violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines by using black-hat SEO techniques such as keyword stuffing,cloaking,participating in link schemes,deliberate creation of duplicate content,and So on.
By Google’s estimates,Penguin affects approximately 3.1% of search queries in English, about 3% of queries in languages like German, Chinese, and Arabic, and an even bigger percentage of them in "highly-spammed"...