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Dinkum's Take on the Penguin and Panda Updates - http://t.co/HRMtSrOM
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May 22, 2012. Posted under: Blog, SEO.
Last year, it was Panda. Now, it’s Penguin. Both are cute black and white animals, but also the names of Google’s changes to its algorithm that determine search results. It’s part of an effort to remove spammy websites and systems set up to game them, and fighting techniques well-known to the SEO community as gray/black hat activities (against Google’s guidelines).
