Re: Why was my website demoted

Lynn,

Your not the only one that this happened to.

May 22 Google began a large demotion penalty for sites with none or minimal content above the fold.

This is an obvious SEO issue and can be solved by simply removing the 4 extremely large rotating images completely and slide the good text up.

Google can not read those big images or decipher the content of them. They can tell however what the ratio of text to image is and where on the page those images are. Google would like to be able to read the content that is exposed in the screens view without any scrolling down required. In the coming years we will see this penalty expanded because we will be moving to unilateral navigation, the ability to swipe pages up or down or side to side. When that day comes we will all be designing far differently.

As Michael Wilson has said over and over.. "Content is King" but I like to spice it up for the occasion..

"Content is King - Above the Fold"

You will come back real fast on Google after you remove the images. Don't shrink them or try to keep them on at all.

Let the Google bots know its gone completely. After your rankings come back, then shrink them down and put them below the fold.

Problem solved ! Let me know how it all went some months down the road.

Jay Bale SEO

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Lynn Wenger <lynnwenger@gmail.com> wrote:

About a month ago my site, rohrermfg.com, was demoted in Google's index for the key phrases "post driver" and "post drivers". We used to be on the first page. Do you see any reason why the site would have gotten demoted? 

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