Maybe you should have read the article to the end before jumping to conclusions: "This was later confirmed when Google’s Head of Webspam: Matt Cutts showed up t

Maybe you should have read the article to the end before jumping to conclusions: "This was later confirmed when Google’s Head of Webspam: Matt Cutts showed up to weigh in on the thread and said directly that the reason this site saw such a large drop in traffic was because of Penguin and the questionable link building tactics that they had been advised to undertake." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793803