Update that an affected site could expect some semblance of recovery. The path was clear: a site would be hit with a penalty, the website owner would send requests to remove offending links, those that couldn't be removed would be added to a disavow list and submitted, and then just waited. However, things got more complicated with this most recent update - not because the algorithm itself got harder to understand, but
rather because the folks at Google did. In essence, there have only been a few major changes with this update: Penguin now works in real time. Webmasters impacted by fax number list Penguin will no longer have to wait for the next update to see the results of their improvement efforts - now changes will be evident much faster, usually shortly after a page is recrawled and re-indexed . Penguin 4.0 is "more granular", meaning it can now impact individual pages or sections of a site in addition to entire domains;
Previously, this would act as a site-wide penalty, affecting the ranking of an entire site. It would seem that there is not much room for confusion here at first glance. However, when the folks at Google started adding details and giving advice, it ended up getting confusing. So let's look at them to better understand what we expect of us. Disavow Files Rumor has it, based on statements by Google's Gary Illyes, that a disavow file is no longer needed to address