If you own a small business and have a website that has ever used any kind of SEO you need to be aware of Google’s Penguin update, a few things may be true though.
You may have used SEO services in the past and recently found that the amount of traffic and new customers you have from your site has fallen drastically, you may have been luckier and only found a slight fall so far, you may not have had a fall yet but still be at risk or you may be lucky and have a website where all the SEO done in the past has been to a great standard and you have nothing to worry about.
SEO services vary greatly some SEO consultants use what are known as ‘Black Hat’ techniques, these often get massive traffic briefly by tricking Google but Google generally catches up with them in the end and Penguin is about not just ignoring the effects of these techniques but actually penalizing you for using them.