Think A Bunch of SEO Spammers Just Got Destroyed by a Penguin
Google’s recent “over optimization” update aka The Penguin Update combined with Panda 3.5 has been interesting to watch unfold. My site’s organic traffic grew 20% over the past few days and while I’d like to think it’s because I am doing SEO right, the data suggests it’s more likely that other sites were doing it, if not wrong, well then perhaps less right, and I am the happy beneficiary.
Check out the changes in rankings my site has experienced for the following SEO terms recently:
Keyword Change in Google Rankings
SEO tool +100
SEO consulting + 80
Facebook SEO + 70
Google SEO tools + 70
Cost of SEO + 60
Search engine SEO + 60
International SEO + 50
Website SEO + 50
SEO tools + 40
Google map SEO + 30
SEO consultant + 30
SEOs + 30
Google SEO + 20
Web SEO + 20
SEO rankings + 20
SEO on page + 20
SEO NY + 20
SEO for websites + 20
San Jose SEO + 10
SEO how to + 10
SEO news + 10
Interestingly I also saw a big drop for some SEO keywords, so perhaps I am a bit of a spammer myself?:
SEO google -100
Mobile SEO -100
SEO optimize – 90
SEO services – 70
SEO on google – 40
Google SEO guidelines – 30
Google SEO tips – 30
Search SEO – 30
SEO ranking factors – 20
I haven’t dug into possible explanations yet, so feel free to chime in via comments.