Websites with massive banner ads in the top half of the page are being affected by Google’s ‘page layout algorithm,’ which is designed to penalize pages with too many ads above the fold, meaning the amount of the page that is visible before scrolling down. Websites that do not have much visible content above the [...]
SEO NEWS: Google Penalizes Ad Heavy Sites
February 7th, 2012SEO NEWS: Google + Growing Too Fast?
January 25th, 2012Google has taken a bold step recently to help launch their G+ community as quickly as possible – and SEOs are seeing that bold move is coming whether you like it or not. Google is going to automatically enroll new Gmail accounts into the G+ platform making it a package deal or nothing move. If [...]
SEO NEWS! Google’s G+ Platform not Popular with Anti-Trust Groups
January 25th, 2012Google is facing a few problems that SEOs are watching closely regarding how their G+ platform will impact the company as a whole. The integration of social into search doesn’t appear to be as popular as Google thought it may be, and while that is problematic from an end user standpoint it could potentially be [...]
SEO NEWS: Google Search Plus Your World Confuses Users
January 23rd, 2012If the new Google plus world search is confusing you, stand in line – even professional SEOs are thrown for a loop with Googles massive restructuring. On the surface, as advertised, G+World, when logged in, should show you returns that are tailored to you based on who is in your circles. That doesn’t quite seem [...]
SEO NEWS: Will G+ Kill Google as a Search Engine?
January 23rd, 2012A question that SEOs are taking very seriously right now is whether or not the new G+ World (G+W) search results are going to ruin previous SEO efforts due to weighting G+ too heavily into the algorithm. While antitrust investigations will go on for years and Google will push forward without a second thought, it [...]













