{"id":660138,"date":"2013-05-24T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=232219"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:10:57","slug":"how-big-is-the-latest-google-penguin-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660138","title":{"rendered":"How Big Is The Latest Google Penguin Update?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Webmasters have been expecting a BIG Penguin update from Google for quite some time, and a couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts promised that one was on the way<\/a>. Finally, on Wednesday, he announced that Google had not only started the roll-out, but completed it. While it was said to be a big one, it remains to be seen just how big it has been in terms of impacting webmasters. <\/p>\n

Have you been impacted by the latest Penguin update? Let us know in the comments<\/a>. <\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Just what did Cutts mean by “big” anyway? When discussing the update a couple weeks ago, he said it would be “larger”. When it rolled out, he announced that “about 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice,” and that “the scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with more webspam will see more impact.”<\/p>\n

As far as English queries, it would appear that the update is actually smaller. The original Penguin (first called the “Webspam” update) was said to impact about 3.1% of queries in English. So, perhaps this one is significantly larger in terms of other languages. <\/p>\n

Cutts has also been tossing around the word “deeper”. In the big “What should we expect in the next few months” video<\/a> released earlier this month, Cutts said this about Penguin 2.0: “So this one is a little more comprehensive than Penguin 1.0, and we expect it to go a little bit deeper, and have a little bit more of an impact than the original version of Penguin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cutts talked about the update a little more in an interview with Leo Laporte<\/a> on the day it rolled out, and said, “It is a leap. It\u2019s a brand new generation of algorithms. The previous iteration of Penguin would essentially only look at the homepage of a site. The newer generation of Penguin goes much deeper. It has a really big impact in certain small areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

We asked Cutts if he could elaborate on that part about going deeper. He said he didn’t have anything to add: <\/p>\n

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@ccrum237<\/a> not much to add for the time being.<\/p>\n

— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) May 23, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n