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, 2012New Google Penalty?
June 7th, 2009Once again, the tales of a dreaded Google penalty are making the rounds – this time a whopping 50 spot drop in rankings has been observed, which anomaly in Google’s results could indeed indicate a new Google penalty. Several webmasters have reported that their websites lost top positions on Google and have plummeted to position [...]
Google Cracks Down on Blog Reviews
October 30th, 2008Blog reviews have been a time honored way to get a little free advertising and some links back to your site. While paying outright for links is black hat, and paying for blog reviews is considered grey, giving out a gift to bloggers was deemed all right until this past week. A large online company [...]













