Has anyone with a high number of home page tiles been effected by the panda/farmer update?

[J.Marie]

One of the sites I'm working on seems to have dropped a few spots in rankings. It has numerous home page tiles, but they are not really advertising; just links to different sections on the site. Does anyone think that might be a factor in the rankings drop?

[DanDeceuster]

One thing that has appeared to be a factor is the number of ads and links on the home page. If you have tons and tons of internal links, then this could be hurting you. That's at least what I have been seeing as it relates to this. Even if they are not ads, if they look like lots of ads then that could be hurting too. The key is to limit the number of outgoing and internal links on a page and to make sure ads are very clearly labeled and that there are not tons of them.

[J.Marie]

Thanks! Do you have any links to posts that state that or have details? I completely agree and I am going to push for a home page redesign, but I need some good, solid information before making the recommendation. All the articles that I've read mention it, but don't have a lot of details about it.