Google May Have Rolled Out Penguin 4.0 Before Its Launch Date

Sep 27, 2016 - 8:11 am 10 by
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As you know, Google announced the launch of Penguin 4.0, the real time Penguin algorithm, on Friday September 23, 2016. Many want to know if it is fully rolled out - it doesn't seem so. Many want to know if it only started to roll out on Friday or if it started earlier.

As we covered then, we saw stronger signs of a Penguin roll out a day or two before and then reported on many Google updates in the month of September. All went unconfirmed.

John Mueller at Google wrote on Twitter that Google doesn't have a "start date" to announce for Penguin's launch. He said:

So I then asked did it roll out before September 23rd and Gary Illyes from Google asked, if it really matters:

If I had to guess, the rollout started a few days before the official launch but we saw signs of Google testing it even earlier. I honestly have no inside information, so that is just a guess.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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