Someone asked John Mueller on a Google Office Hours hangout if just changing a web design layout can affect rankings. Mueller answered right away and without any ambiguity. He said yes, it could ...

Do you shove lots of ads at the top of your web pages? Think again. Tired of doing a Google search and landing on these types of pages? Rejoice. Google has announced that it will penalize sites with ...

Yahoo is testing a new layout for search results that packs more paid listings onto a page, a move that could increase its revenue and provide a big boost for its paid search partner, Overture ...

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced that Google has released a refresh of its Page Layout Algorithm. The filter, also known as the Top Heavy algorithm, downgrades the ranking of a web ...

Google’s John Mueller clarified in a tweet recently that Google’s Page Layout Algorithm was not generally about the number of ads. This is a more detailed explanation that improves on eight years of ...

If you noticed a change in your organic search traffic or rankings last week, and have a high ratio of ads to content at the top of your web pages, chances are you could be affected by a refresh of ...

Every page has three main parts: the header, the content layout, and the footer. Page Layouts provide a consistent structure and style for these parts. When a Page Layout is modified, all pages that ...