Google Penguin 2.1 is Going Live Today

Google Penguin 2.1 is launching today, according to a tweet from Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts.

The first update to the second-generation Penguin algorithm designed to target web spam will affect "~1% of searches to a noticeable degree."

Google Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and affected 2.3 percent of English-U.S. queries. When it launched, Cutts explained that while it was the fourth Penguin-related launch, Google referred to the change internally as Penguin 2.0 because it was an updated algorithm rather than just a data refresh.

"It's a brand new generation of algorithms," Cutts said in May. "The previous iteration of Penguin would essentially only look at the home page of a site. The newer generation of Penguin goes much deeper and has a really big impact in certain small areas."

This is Google's fifth Penguin-related launch.

Google originally launched the algorithm that was eventually become known as Penguin 1.0 in April 2012. There were two refreshes last year: in May and October.

How to add recent comments widget with avatars in blogger

How to add recent comments widget with avatars

Step 1. Go to Blogger Dashboard, then go to Layout and click on Add a Gadget link.

Step 2. In the popup window scroll down + choose HTML/Javascript

Step 3. Paste in the following code in the empty box:

 <style type="text/css">
ul.w2b_recent_comments {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

.w2b_recent_comments li {
    background: none !important;
    margin: 0 0 6px !important;
    padding: 0 0 6px 0 !important;
    display: block;
    clear: both;
    overflow: hidden;
    list-style: none;
}