What Matt Cutt’s Penguin 2.1 AND 5 includes and where it will attack majorly?

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We all know about Penguin; however, still are we are wondering that what does Penguin 2.1 AND 5 is including. This latest update was introducing by Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts on 4th October 2013.

The first Penguin was introduced in 2012 on April 24. This algorithmic penalty targets ranking exaggerated by way of unnatural links. So, in this case to take closer look for your unnatural removal is essential to recovery from this update's penalty.

Have a look for some series of Penguin:

Year of 2012:

Penguin 1.0: April 24 (affected about 3.1% of queries)
Penguin 1.2: May 26 (affected about less than 0.1%)
Penguin 1.3: Oct. 5 (affected about 0.3% of queries)

Year of 2013:

Penguin 2.0: May 22 (affected about 2.3% of queries)
Penguin 2.1: Oct. 4 (affected about 1% of queries)

What is the role of Penguin?

What Penguin 2.1 AND 5 includes?

This update is specifically designed to target inner-pages' unnatural link building. It is the fact that till now we are focusing on link building as SEO point of view. However, on initial step this penguin was designed to target unnatural link building for home page; however, with Penguin 5 now inner pages' link building are more essential to take look. Over optimization of keyword for link building for inner page is in base of this released update.

Over optimized keyword based anchor text linking is the main entrance of Penguin 2.1.

If you have done following activities then your site will surely get affected by this update:


  •    Author bio with highly targeted keyword anchor text
  •    Social media profile creation with targeted keyword's name
  •    Keyword title based story submission
  •    Keyword title oriented directory submission
  •    Dealing with link-wheel for highly optimized keywords
  •    Forum posting with unnatural keyword
  •    Keyword oriented Blog commenting

Actually, we can say that there is one aim of releasing this update after announcement of Hummingbird update. Hummingbird will rolled out properly if Penguin 2.1 AND 5 removed all unnatural linking. Then only aim of Hummingbird will be achieved for some search result based on the real meaning of queries instead of just keyword based unnatural results.

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