Google Penguin Petition + Feedback Form

Announced first as a light update with only 3.1% of queries impacted, it seems that the new Google algorithm update called Penguin did far more casualties than expected.

If you are an editor and was impacted, there is a petition on Change.org called “Google: Please kill your Penguin update!“.

“With the recent Google Penguin update, it has become nearly impossible for small content based websites to stay competitive with large publishers like eHow, WikiHow, Yahoo Answers and Amazon. Countless webmasters have seen their livelihoods vanish overnight. In a recent interview, Sergey Brin came out against “Walled Gardens” of the likes of Facebook and expressed worries about the direction that the internet. Ironically, the Penguin update has created a similar garden that only admits multimillion dollar publishing platforms.”

Basically, this webmaster used “borderline” techniques “like everyone else” he said. But when we talk about linkbuilding, some will tell you that we are already doing Borderline SEO. It remains to be seen how SEO Agencies will sell their marketing services to clients in the future. And for the small web editor, he could a long long time before seeing natural backlinks to him, except if he hires a top journalist and presents an exclusive high-quality content. Actually by cleaning its results pages from webspam, Google is also helping large companies. And I think it’s only the begining. Everything that exists in real life (big companies) will be on top of search engines on the internet, thanks to their HUGE budgets. And it will be increasingly difficult for a small publisher to put his site in top position, unless you have a new idea or a completely different service to offer. Or unless you are Kevin Systrom or Mark Zuckerberg.

Google is playing a dangerous game as many users could go to Bing or DuckDuckGo.

If you want to write to Google about 24 April 2012 Penguin update, use this feedback form.

Other bad news for news sites, media, journalists and bloggers (I can not find the source, if you find it please put it here below) : by 2020, 80% of news will be written by robots …