It may be interesting to read the hundreds comments there:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pengui...led-out-today/
A selection, there seem contrasting reviews:
- I seen more spam sites are off the results. Social media gaining in search engine results.
- All I can see is that exact match domains rank well on Google.
- Still it needs to be more strong, I can see that most of the results are spam.
- Wikipedia is top 3 for many keywords where people are solely looking to buy, not looking for information. For some keywords, Wikipedia takes up 2 even 3 spaces on page 1?.
- Biggest difference I see that one website is not dominating more than one spots on first page.
- you choose to rank a wikipedia article above me?
- google first page: lots of blogspot.com spam sites, this is Google webspam
- authorities now have a much larger presence as opposed to much smaller sites
I checked free cam girl keywords against our tubecamgirl.com site. Rank is mostly unchanged, some move up and down, but more moved up than down:
USA/EN, "cam girl free" , "girls live free", "cam girls free" unchanged as #4, #5, #6 places respectively, no penguin 2.0 effects:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=of...oogle.com&fp=1
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=of...oogle.com&fp=1
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=of...oogle.com&fp=1
USA/EN, "free cam girls" #6 after Penguin 2.0 (was #8 before, don't remember site penalized there)
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=of...oogle.com&fp=1
In results where our site ranked 10th to 20th, some went up and some down. In general I see if you was within first 5-6 results before penguin 2.0, you may have kept there, but if you was 10th to 20th there's a lot of moving. This make sense, happened with normal data updates all the time, even with same algorithm.
Then there's the other languages and countries, not just USA/EN.
GB(UK)/EN "cam girl free" kept same nice #3 place after penguin 2.0:
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=...gle.co.uk&fp=1
AU/EN "cam girl free" is now #4 after penguin 2.0, it was #5 before (but we been #2 months ago, Australia is volatile?):
http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&safe...le.com.au&fp=1
Canada/EN "cam girl free" kept same #5 place after pengiun 2.0:
http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&safe=off... oogle.ca&fp=1
It is interesting to see like for canada, that the first 4 places are es.chaturbate, chaturbate, fr.chaturbate and ru.chaturbate, which makes not much sense, I mean to give chaturbate the first 4 spots just because 4 hosts one per language, this it seems to pay well for SEO.
Then tubecamgirl then guess what: wikipedia.org for term CamGirl.
I expect more and more clever Wikipedia spam with articles full of links for "information".
I checked also other languages as German, French, but we're not much of translated to be authoritative results.
Now I wonder what's the effect on whitelabels. AWE was affected weeks ago before the update, I wonder how's going with the whitelabels of everyone else now.