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BWMagic’s Internet Marketing Newsletter
Google’s Webspam Update Causes Complete Havoc
Penguin
Has Google Search Become One Big Mess?
Just when the Hockey Playoffs are heating up, Google goes and
makes some drastic changes to its search rankings. Is there no
common decency left anymore!
And the fallout from these recent Google changes is just as
messy as some of the latest playoff games. If you don’t follow
ice hockey, you won’t get the reference, but believe me… it’s
pretty messy.
Like thousands, if not millions, of site owners I am scrambling
to adjust to the latest Google minefield. Since I have been
actively link building for over 10 years, these recent changes
within Google have really affected traffic on a few of my sites.
Thankfully, since last year I have been looking at other
ways to market online (other than SEO and high rankings
in Google) mainly through Press Releases, exact keyword
domains and changing my article marketing to just make sales
rather than to build links or for SEO purposes.
However…
This week Google rolled out one of its most disruptive
Algorithm changes yet, one that far outranks anything
the whole series of Panda Updates ever did to Google’s
listings. If your site wasn’t affected by these changes,
consider yourself very lucky for now, countless webmasters
have seen their sites disappear from Google’s SERPS altogether.
According to Danny Sullivan of Searchengineland, this
new update is called Penguin. It was released or rolled out on
April 24 of this week.
The online forums are full of horror stories from some
very legitimate high-quality sites which have seen the
negative effects of the recent changes. Google and Matt Cutts
are saying these recent changes have to do with “webspam”
and those sites which “overly” uses SEO to rank high
in Google.
More or less, if you have been actively building backlinks
to your site, this latest update could do serious damage
to your site. Google wants to reward sites that don’t
“aggressively” build links or practice SEO.
In a perfect world, maybe those changes would work, but
in an online environment where many businesses, big and small,
have been optimizing and aggressively building backlinks
for 10 years or more, these changes spell disaster.
Again, as with any changes Google make to determine what
sites get ranked, there is widespread uproar that Google is
simply now showing more junk results in their listings. The
outcry this time seems to be louder than in recent memory.
So has Google’s organic search results become one big mess?
Has consistency gone the way of the DoDo bird? Has Google
really thrown the baby out with the bathwater this time?
No matter how loud the outcry from affected webmasters
and site owners, the real question here has to be answered by
Google’s mainstream users. Will they accept these new
listings/rankings OR will they look for another search
engine to use?
Don’t hold your breath.
Actually, Google’s share of the lucrative search market is going
up and not down. It now controls over 65% in the U.S. and much
more in other countries. Unless those numbers go down, Google
can pretty much do what it wants, regardless of the outcry
from battle weary webmasters.
The only losers in all this are the search users and unless
they change their habits, SEO may indeed be on the way out,
along with relevant results. Especially if Google is now
penalizing webmasters who are practicing SEO and off-site link
building, the future looks very bleak for SEO.
Although some experts are saying you shouldn’t do
this – but you feel your site has been unfairly
affected by the Penguin/Webspam/Titanic Update you
can submit your argument/feedback to Google.
Related Posts:
Fixing Google’s Penguin Penalty
Will Google’s Titanic/Webspam/Penguin Update Sink Millions Of Sites?
Kind Regards,
Titus Hoskins
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