Google and the new Page Layout Update

by Trev Pearman IM Coach IMMACC mbr

The continuing algorithm changes that Google regularly review and update lead to another change. A few days ago Google officially released its latest change, being refered to as the Page Layout Update by my friends at WebProNews.

It's my interpretation from my primary resource that:

The primary target for this change is for webmasters who place a lot of ads above the fold on their website/s which interfere with or obscure any written content, perhaps even by simply pushing the main body of content below the fold of the webpage. For most of us who follow the guidelines for creating our website designs and presentations with plenty of good relevent content and monetising our pages with a good balance of ads we will not feel any impact to our sites except some may appear to gain a notch or two in the search engine rankings depending on your competition and how their webpages are structured.

The actual amount of websites that latest algorithm change is likely to affect is quoted as less than 1% of searches globally (1% is still a significant amount of webpages and websites that are vunerable)

I'm going to keep this short and simple in my content as I want to share this news with followers and friends and anyone who happens to stumble upon my writing.

Heres my Primary resource (+more resources found here)

http://www.webpronews.com/googles-algorithm-change-when-too-many-ads-attack-2012-01

I find these guys and gals to be a great reliable resource of imformation so go ahead read what they and their resources have to say and go ahead take advantage of their free subscription and get some great information.

Heres a video produced by Goole Adsense on ad placements and page layout.

http://youtu.be/G8lpZFJTpWk

Hope you found this valuable.

TrevPearman