Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

alphonsegaston wrote: post #331

Smirnoff wrote: post #273

I really would like to see Google penalize websites that force you to login after google showed these websites in the results. 1. Take Linkedin for example: you search for a person on google; google shows a linkedin result; you go to linkedin but you are greeted with giant popup asking you to login to view info. Ridiculous. 2. Same with Quora: they come in results with basic info, but when you go to their page, they…

I frequently have to delete these kinds of HTML nodes off the page just to see if it actually has something I want. I debated rolling my own extension for the common sites where I run into this, but ended up just throwing up my hands at the absurdity of the situation.

Post by ThisIs_MyName » Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 12:55 PM UTC

type0 wrote: post #351

cygned wrote: post #296

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Pinterest is even worse - in Google Images, images are listed but once you enter the site, you're blocked from accessing whatever you have been looking for.

There should be one button option to exclude pinterest from search results, a workaround is to add -site:.pinterest.com to the end of the query when searching for images.

Post by ozaark » Wed, Feb 01, 2017, 2:41 AM UTC

Kadin wrote: post #384

ozaark wrote: post #129

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The amount of consumer studies done on grocer layouts is enormous. The direction of foot traffic has been decided from rtl despite our common ltr reading format because it's more profitable to do so, the checkout line with small items marked higher than in other parts of the same store for the same reason, and so much more. If your sentiment were true, most heavily weighted expendables would all be located in the bac…

> most heavily weighted expendables would all be located in the back simply because of labor They are. At least in almost every grocery store I've been in. The milk coolers are almost invariably against the back wall, accessible from the stockroom (which itself has the loading dock), as is the butcher / meat department. Both of those departments are probably getting daily deliveries, and it's of stuff that needs to b…