Written on 13 June 2012 by First Google Penguin algorithm change occured on 24th april 2012 and the first update on May 25th.
Penguin targeted websites with too many similar anchors in their incoming links, scraped content websites, inappropriate backlinking environnment and relevancy (example : a sports site that links to a website about food on each page…), and exact match domains that overuse keywords in their backlinks.
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