Is Penguin a Penalty?
No, neither Penguin nor Panda are manual penalties, Cutts said.
He explained that Penguin was designed to tackle ?the stuff in the middle;? between fantastic, high quality content and spam. Panda was all about spam, but the need for Penguin arose from this middle ground.
?It does demote web results, but it?s an algorithmic change, not a penalty. It?s yet another signal among over 200 signals we look at,? he said.
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