Just last week, Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land reported the latest Google algorithm update which targets ad heavy websites. As Google’s official blog post announcing the page layout algorithm says, the update affects “… sites where there is only a small amount of visible content above-the-fold or relevant content is persistently pushed down by large blocks of ads. Matt Cutts warned that this update was coming back in November at PubCon.
Google’s Algorithm Update Targets Ad Heavy Sites
Posted by nickstamoulis under Online MarketingFrom http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com 4466 days ago
Made Hot by: Small Business Tribe on January 30, 2012 3:50 am
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4463 days ago
I guess a lot of people have felt for quite some time that too many adds send a bad message to visitors. So it's probably not surprising that Google now feels the same.