Is anyone noticing if penguin 2.0 as been launched
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I read a paper that penguin 2.0 is already running
As anyone more information about that or any tool to seen how rankings has been affected
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Yes I can see some changes in Google in Australia, some strange results though!
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Yes, here is a link to Cutt's post about it.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/
He is reporting 2.3% of queries affected. I didn't know what to expect when I heard it would be 2.0 but based on the history of penguin it doesn't surprise me that it was not nearly as large as the big Panda updates.
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Yes Matt Cutts has confirmed that Penguin 2.0 is in full swing. I know you can download an app to check your rankings but you need to have had data to compare.
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