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Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google

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Re: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google

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Post by j_col »

kc5tja wrote: post #57
j_col wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since when did Google become the Internet police? Seriously, I don't think it's their role to penalize anything you find annoying online.

It's Google's service, it's Google's web-spiders, and it's Google's attempt to deliver useful content to their own customers. How is it NOT in Google's interest to police the links they present to visitors of Google's own properties? If you don't like it, use Yahoo!.

But where does it stop? Is it ok for example for them to downgrade a site based on political content? Or religious content? It's not much of a jump from "we don't want to to visit this site because it has too many ads" to "we don't want you to visit this site because we don't believe in it's views".

> If you don't like it, use Yahoo!.

Thanks for the tip, but I prefer DuckDuckGo.

Re: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google

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Post by X-Istence »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #78
X-Istence wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what I am seeing when Googling "trash cans": http://i.imgur.com/gJjCK.png To me that yellow stands out extremely well, I have no trouble seeing it. The background in Google's CSS for that div with id "tads" is: #FDF6E5 This is for the search "credit cards": http://i.imgur.com/bPnkJ.png The background colour is still the same. I just asked around the office if anyone was misled regarding these ads and no-one e…

Ah yes, that SEPR does have an ad block with background color #FDF6E5. However, that color is only 10% yellow. Objectively, that should present a very faint yellow. If you're seeing a gold-ish yellow background, then your monitor is set to low brightness or Gamma 2.2. That way, you won't see colors as they are.

My monitor is set for accurate colour representation. Gamma 2.2 is the norm these days and is what websites, photography software, video software all want these days.

Mac OS X used to be the lone hold-out at 1.8 gamma but those days are long gone. (Snow Leopard changed the default to 2.2 to be in-line with the rest of the industry). Windows has always been at 2.2 gamma.

Re: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google

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Post by arantius »

chauzer wrote: post #76
coreyspitzer wrote: post #53

I skimmed the article, but I didn't see at what arbitrary line Google considers "the fold"

I thought "the fold" was always the line where you have to scroll to see below it

Yes but for what combination of hardware and software?
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