There has been a lot to learn over the years about penalties, but have there been any studies done on the general response of websites to penalization. What is it that webmasters do when slapped with a penalty is different than what they ought to be doing when presented with one.
Russ Jones has a post up on the Moz Blog that discusses these matters in an article called “Penguin Penalties: Do Webmasters Respond the Way They Should?” In his post, Russ talks about things like how webmaster’s responses matters, their methodology, and other things that webmasters do and what they should be doing.
By following the link below, you can discover Russ’s article in what should be done, versus what is currently being done by a lot of webmasters.
Moz Blog: Penguin Penalties: Do Webmasters Respond the Way They Should?
http://moz.com/blog/webmaster-responses-to-penguin-penalties