Hummingbird, Penguin 2.1 – The Guidelines Are Still The Same
While there is still a lot of buzz going on about the Hummingbird and Penguin 2.1 algorithm updates, and how it affects ranking. On October 3rd, Barry Schwartz posted a blog about specific dates where there were noticeable ranking changes and conducted a survey asking how SEOs and webmasters were affected. He discusses the results of the change in the video below. Barry Schwartz Discusses a Poll On How Rankings Were Affected By Penguin 2.1 There were over 1600 responses to the poll. These were the results: 63% of the respondents said that their site was hurt bad. 21% said that their site had no change at all. 8% said that their website recovered from the previous penguin update. 6.2% that their rank gained with more traffic. This shouldn't be surprising to most of us. When we look at historical SEO tactics, it's easy to see that yesterday's white-hat is today's grey-hat/black-hat. Guest posting used to be one of the most effective ways of manually building links, but even that has become more challenging. So with these new updates, what do [...]