Murray Newlands

I own Influence People, an online marketing consulting firm. I enjoy blogging, making money online, and volunteering for charity. Personal website: http://www.murraynewlands.com

Are fewer ads always better?

66 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Murray Newlands / 02/13/2012

Google recently announced that it will penalize sites with more than three ads above the fold. Frequently, these sites are low-quality sites with super-SEO’d, thin content landing pages designed to have people quickly bounce off the site when they click on one of the ads. However, placing advertising this densely before Google started penalizing sites was only profitable for thin content sites specifically designed for it, not for sites with actual human readers.…continue reading…

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