Rants, Rage and Recovery Yes, Google’s spam detection algorithm isn’t perfect, and it will never be perfect. The Penguin algorithm initially rolled out on April 24, 2012. The goal of Penguin is to reduce the trust that Google has in sites that have cheated by creating unnatural backlinks in order …

Google: Penguin 4.0 Algorithm Updates Google’s Penguin 4.0 algorithm, the real time granular version, is now fully rolled out. We’ve been covering Penguin forever and more recently now since it started rolling out sometime around September 23rd. Google has a long history of famous algorithm updates, search index changes and refreshes. Below are links …