Hiya all, I have heard that having too many ads on a page is a bad thing as far as serp goes. 1- Is that true? 2- OK, so how many are too many? 3- How do the search engines distinguish from an ad and any other external link (say for more relevant info)? 4- Is it a ratio of ads per amount of content thing? 5- Did I say thank you yet? :O)
Text link sales are against Google Webmaster Quality Guidelines, if you don't care about pagerank or Google indexing your site then go ahead and sell them. Just don't complain when your site gets 0 search results and no pagerank if Google gives your site a penalty. Rule of thumb, visitors don't want ads they want content. At the most you want only 2-3 ad units per page, 5 is the max I would ever do, and have also never yet to do. Your answer is very simple, 2-3 ads, don't sell text links and work on building backlinks and seo optimization of your site.
Exactly. If you are selling links or using affiliate links its usually best to use nofollow on them, that's if you want to play it safe.
I wasn't referring to selling text link ads. Yes, I do have some text links that lead to affiliated companies. I don't think that is the same as "selling" links. 2-3 per page? Thanks for the answer. Visitors want zero advertising, EVERYTHING for free, and a back massage while we are at it. lol This was a "seo optimization" question. Thanks for the help. :O)
No problem, Actually asking about ads on a page really isn't an SEO question, its a publishers question But hey, I'm not keep track... i swear!
lol So the placement of ads has zero effect on serp??? That is the heart of my question. If it is a publisher issue, and not seo, then it does nothing to serp. Right? :O)