Sites will be penalized by Google for too many ads

Sites that making it life tough for the visitors to find good content and comprising of heavy ads will be penalized by Google.This was said by head of Google’s web spam team during his keynote session at PubCon.

”What are the things that really matter, how much content is above the fold,” Cutts said. “If you have ads obscuring your content, you might want to think about it,” inferring that a if a user is having a hard time viewing content that the site may be flagged as spam.

Google has been dropping ranking for sites with too many ads since it has been updating the algorithm over the past couple of months.

Cutts also said all the sites that have been marked as spam should not have been marked as spam and asked the webmasters to report to Cutts and his team.

In the pubcon Cutt responded to audience doubts that there won’t be any threat to SEO and SEO is here to stay.Search will always be getting better and more personalized for each one of us.He also told “Google will be always be striving to get the best results possible while getting fresh real time results”.

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