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this implies that you can detect the spammy sites in the first place, take a ridiculously spammy keyword like "buy viagra", how would you detect useful sites in

• stcredzero 16y ago
  this implies that you can detect the spammy sites in the first place In essence, you've just admitted the feasibility of rating the "spammyness" of keyword tuples, provided you can do the classifier. Second, of course this is possible! SEO-spammers must have some way of determining what to spam. They must have some metric for determining how they can make money and for targeting their efforts for the most profitable scraped content, determining what keyword-tuples to optimize for. An anti-SEO spam engine just has to take the same steps. Just as email spammers put on their email-filterer hats to evade filters, anti-SEO spam engines just have to think like SEO spammers to figure out what SEO spammers are likely to target.
  • phpnode 16y ago
    Let's suppose it's possible to tell that a keyword is spammy, what benefit does that provide? The person typing the keyword doesn't care if it's spammy, they just want useful results, quickly. You can't just reverse the spammer's process, because it's a process followed by many legitimate, successful websites: Research keywords that drive traffic > produce content > build links > get traffic.
    • stcredzero 16y ago
      Spammers don't produce content. That's the key.