Webmaster and SEO Blog May Archive

Junk websites can be, well, really junky as they tend to populate search engine results if you use a low-end web search engine. But what keeps these junk webmasters to continue their work? It's because there's a lot of money waiting to be picked, thanks to the advertisers!

In relation to this, software giant Microsoft released a paper studying the behavior of junk webmasters and how their deeds resulted to the corruption of search engines. It also proposed a model, a five-layer, double-funnel model, that may be followed by those who make search engine algorithms. Know more about the report here.

Link: Microsoft Will Be the Death of Junk Websites - The advertisers’ money is funding the search spam industry

Another Search Engine

Why do you have to go to other search engines when there's Google around the corner, I wonder? Why would you even bother compete with Google in the field that it has already mastered? Well, someone is trying here. It's called Wikia Search. As I understand it, it is using a star-clicking system to find out which sites are good. However, many of the sites on top of the search are still junk. Link: Forum:Junk Websites - search Tags: junk websites • wikia search • 0 Comments. - Permalink