Penguin 3.0 was finally released on October 17th, 2014 i.e. a full year since the release of Penguin 2.1. This has been a long awaited update among many webmasters whose websites were negatively affected by the Penguin last year.

1. A Guide To SEO After Penguin 3.0

2. Penguin 3.0 was finally released on October 17th,
2014 i.e. a full year since the release of Penguin
2.1. This has been a long awaited update among
many webmasters whose websites were negatively
affected by the Penguin last year.
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3. Meaning, even if you made the necessary changes to
your website and removed spammy links disavowed
the links that made you get the penalty in the first
place, your site would not have recovered until
Google refreshed the update for all the sites in its
index.
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4. Unfortunately, not everyone is as lucky as the
Penguin specifically targets the links on a website
and if you have spammy links or links that are
against Google’s TOS, then you will be penalized.
A penalty means that your search engine rankings
will drop.
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5. This last Penguin update is
reported to have only affected
approximately 1% of queries.
Unfortunately, if you happened
to only disavow bad links to
your website within three
weeks of the update (after 26th
September, 2014) then you’d
have been too late to avoid the
effects of Penguin 3.0.
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6. So, exactly how do you go about doing SEO after
Penguin 3.0? Well, the first thing you need to do is
take a close and critical look at your website. Do
you currently offer paid posts or paid links? The
penguin is extremely focused on links and we all
know that Google is against paid links and selling
links in general.
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7. However, selling links on your website is a good
way to make a monthly income. If you can avoid
selling links, that would be best, however, if you
insist on doing so, then make sure to use a “no
follow” link.
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8. Another point to note is that Google’s penguin
algorithm also cracks down on websites that
offer excessive guest posting. You should
therefore only allow a few guest posts from
relevant and related websites and try to keep
these links natural.
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9. This leads to my next point on the importance of
anchor text variation. Anchor texts usually help
search engines to determine what keywords the
post or site is related to and was a huge factor that
helped webmasters to rank for their desired
keywords.
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10. Another common SEO method that many webmasters
have been using to generate a lot of backlinks is the
use of links within free products, widgets, Wordpress
themes, plugins, infographics etc. This was once very
effective as you were able to get large amounts of
links from all types of websites that used your free
product.
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11. Next, it is absolutely critical that you avoid link
farms and paid links. Building backlinks is hard
work, however, taking the easy way out and using
paid links is a sure way to Google doom. Don’t
fall for those fast $5 fiverr backlink services or
private blog networks such as Rank Hero.
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12. As you can see, the world of SEO just keeps
evolving and you need to adapt your methods of
doing SEO if you want your site to remain penalty
free and keep receiving free organic traffic. Once
you follow the above tips, your site will definitely
be Penguin 3.0 proof.
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