5 ways ads are killing your site (& SEO)

We often don’t consider the impact our website’s ads could have on organic search visibility, but columnist Kristine Schachinger explains why too many ads can be a bad thing for users and search engines alike.

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Google Updates Its Page Layout Algorithm To Go After Sites “Top Heavy” With Ads

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced that Google has released a refresh of its Page Layout Algorithm. The filter, also known as the Top Heavy algorithm, downgrades the ranking of a web page with too many ads at the top or if the ads are deemed too distracting for users. Cutts…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Same Ad To Organic Ratio As Google, You’re Safe From The Top-Heavy Alogrithm

At SMX Advanced tonight, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced that if you have the same or less ads than Google does in their search results, then you are safe from their top heavy algorithm. In short, if your ad to organic ratio is the same or less than what you see in […]

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