Anything done to excess in order to improve search rankings or search referrals may be considered Webspam, but excess alone is not necessarily the only criterion. For example, suppose you only bait
In the field of Criminology there is a concept called Strain Theory (also called the “means-end theory of deviance”). Robert K. Merton proposed that a society which pursues equal goals wit
Both Google and Bing are trying to present AI-aggregated lists in Best of Class Search (as shown below), which are extracted from information on multiple web pages rather than directly citing a
Google has published its annual webspam report and in that report, Google has named its machine learning based systems for spam identification with its own name - SpamBrain. SpamBrain is a new name b
Here you are in the midst of another “Google update”. It gets tedious, especially for Website publishers who only see their traffic trending downward. You inevitably wonder when it will ev
With Google and Bing, you can submit reconsideration requests and you need to do that for you to recover from manual actions. Waiting out manual actions, is not an option for most sites for many reaso
Systems and Methods of Correlating Business Information to Determine Spam, Closed Businesses, and Ranking Signals Inventors: Andrea Frome, Howard Wellington Trickey, Melanie Clements, Ethan G. Russell