Google Penguin 2.1 Update Impacted About 1% Of Search Queries

On 4th Oct Google Rolls Out Penguin 2.1 update and it impacts plenty of websites. Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam declare that this update affects 1% of search queries.  Penguin 2.1 seems to possess known newer link spam – those links that were created at a later date than at a later date than the Penguin 2.0.

Google Penguin 2.1 Update mainly affects the following link spam:

• Forum biography spam: Profile of forum users which contain exact match anchor text links in their forums signature
• Forum spam: This spam includes comments in forums with exact match anchor text links in signatures.
• Do follow blogs: Those blogs which provide do follow  attribute to the links posted also face it .
• Spammy directories:If you have used spam directories for getting links and your links are still present in those directories then you will also face this update, Gabe said "nuke them, have them nofollowed, or disavow them."
• Blog comment signature spam:  If you leave signature in your blog comments then ready to face this update

Gabe's suggested top five recommendations to recover your website from Google Penguin 2.1 Update

• Understand that Penguin heavily targets unnatural links. Your new content and group action will not trigger a recovery.
• Thoroughly analyze your link profile, whereas keeping a keen eye on actual match and wealthy anchor text. that is what Penguin targets.
• Remove those links if you'll, and deny the remaining links. And use the domain operator within the deny file once the domain is low-quality. Don’t try to target specific URLs on a spammy domain, after you will nuke the complete domain.
• Make sure additional unnatural links aren’t being supplemental as time goes on. Gabe aforementioned he is had variety of business owners suppose they cleansed up their scenario, solely to urge hit tougher throughout Penguin 2.1. Once checking their link profiles, you'll clearly see additional spammy links were supplemental throughout the spring, summer, and fall. This can be what got them hit by Penguin 2.1.