{"id":17,"date":"2012-06-26T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2021-11-24T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:06:44","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-google-penguin-vs-unnatural-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/whats-the-difference-between-google-penguin-vs-unnatural-links","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s The Difference Between Google Penguin vs Unnatural Links?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>There is still a huge amount of confusion in the SEO space around how the Google Penguin update differs from the unnatural link penalties being sent out.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame anyone for being confused, I am confused.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Penguin is automated and the unnatural link notifications are manual. So the clear distinction is if you receive a warning in webmaster tools for unnatural links, then it is that. If you saw a drop in rankings when Penguin launched or refreshed then it was Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>But if you didn&#8217;t have any of those details, how can you tell if a site was hit by Penguin vs unnatural links by just looking at the linkage data?<\/p>\n<p>If I had to guess, I&#8217;d say:<\/p>\n<p>1. Unnatural links is more about link networks, paid links, blog networks and unnatural link patterns.<\/p>\n<p>2. Penguin is more about low quality links with weird looking anchor text, plus other SEO related link building techniques.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/penguin-vs-links-15343.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is still a huge amount of confusion in the SEO space around how the Google Penguin update differs from the unnatural link penalties being sent out. I don&#8217;t blame anyone for being confused, I am confused. We know that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-marketing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}