What impact does "page bloat" have on Google rankings?

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Deepesh from New York asks:

"What impact does 'page bloat' have on Google rankings? Most of the winners in SEO seem to have very simple pages (very few images, HTML-only design) - sometimes to the detriment to the user in a poorly designed page."

Recorded on April 23, 2009.



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