Google Penguin Winners and Losers?

[Aran_Smithson]

Hi All,

Just wondering out of the SEOmoz community who has come out on top after Penguin and who has been hit and why.

Personally my site has come out on top. I started workig on the site back in December and NOTHING had been done, no link development, no onpage, nothing, a virginal website.

The site was chock-a-block with issues both technically and in content. After 4 months of hard work, we have climbed from 100+ to top ten on most of our phrases and post Penguin we have climbed even higher as some of our competitors were dragged down into the murky depths. So I think thats a win (for now).

My focus has been on Guest posting, social outreach, reviews and getting my on page right (still a ways to go, but our CMS is clunky to say the least).

A little humour attached (Why has no one yet stuck Matt Cutts head on a Penguin?)

Are you a Penguin Winner or have you experienced the wrath of the penguin.

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[MoosaHemani]

Well I will call myself as one of the neutral person who nether got hurt not got any positive advantage out of it! The reason why there was no real movement is because my industry is very competitive and the terms I am targeting are the most competitive terms in my niche…

Moreover, our website is standing mostly on 2 to 3 page and almost all competitors are investing right on SEO so the spam links and similar ratio is quite down at my side… and everyone is busy building quality links to the website. In these cases usually the one with most quality score wins!

As far as Penguin is concern… well may be its new in the bubble further versions of it will might bring a penguin with a Matt’s face on it