About a month ago, we polled our readers asking how they were impacted by the Google Penguin update.
We have well over a 1,000 responses and I wanted to share them with you. Keep in mind, those who were negatively impacted are probably more likely to take the poll. That being said, 65% said they were negatively impacted by Penguin, while only 13% said they were positively impacted.
This is way more than the Panda update where only 40% said they were negatively impacted by the Panda update. Again, it depends who takes the poll but huge differences. Note, Panda was a larger update and should have been felt by more sites on the web. But Penguin was likely targeting specific SEO techniques, because it was originally named theover optimization penalty.
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This post was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today.
I think this is the first thing I have seen that put Penguin Google responses into a chart. I do believe that most of the people who took this survey were probably negatively affected. However, they still took the time to be honest. And help put this Google update into perspective.
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