Overview of Google Penguin Update iterations (data-refreshes)

Any time there is an update to the database on which the Penguin Update runs, it is called a “data refresh”. Google rolled out new iterations of their Penguin Updates at different times to the different search-markets.

An iteration is the continued usage of the same process on already obtained (intermediate) data, as well as the step by step or continued access to a specific data-structure.

Penguin Update iterations by language-region or search-market

04.10.2013 Google US Google UK Google Deutschland
Penguin Update 2.1
22.05.2013 Google US Google UK Google Deutschland
Penguin Update 2.0 (Algorithm-Update, no data refresh)
05.10.2012 Google US Google UK Google Deutschland
Penguin Update #3
26.05.2012 Google US Google UK Google Deutschland
Penguin Update #2
24.04.2012 Google US Google UK Google Deutschland
Penguin Update #1

If you want to know more about the difference between an “Update” and a “data refresh”, please see our article “What is the difference between an update and a data refresh?”.

08.11.2021