Is Google Penguin Update Getting Stronger Over Time?
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Recent studies have shown that Google is slowly reducing their tolerance for their definition of “web spam”. Whereas Google used to only penalize websites with an ~80% suspicious linking profile, now Google is penalizing websites with profiles that consist of ~50% suspicious linking profiles. We have Dallas SEO, Austin SEO, Houston SEO, and San Antonio SEO services to help detox and grow your link building profiles.
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Here are the facts:
- 10,000 links analyzed pointing to top 50 sites of Inc 5000 list of 2012.
- SEOmoz and Majestic SEO were 2 tools used.
- Custom crawler was designed
- Total collected data was more than 250k URL’s of links pointing to penalized and non-penalized websites
What the data showed?
- 72% of websites have clean linking profiles when less than 10% of their links were coming from questionable resources
- 20% of the websites had were noted as having between ~10% to ~40% “spammy links”
- There were a total of about 4 different websites that were at an obvious “at risk” of being penalized with ~40% of questionable links within their linking profile.
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