This day in search marketing history: January 19
Google’s page layout algorithm, plus: Matt Cutts resigns from Google, Top Stories deduplication, mobile usability warnings and more. Google’s page layout algorithm launches In 2012, Google announced it would penalize sites with pages that were top-heavy with ads. The page layout algorithm update took direct aim at any site with pages where content was buried under tons of ads. According to Google: If you click on a website and the part of the website you see first either doesn’t have a lot of visible content above-the-fold or dedicates a large…
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