Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

The expansion of the Web and its information in all aspects of life raises the concern of how to trust information published on the Web especially in cases where publisher may not be known. Websites strive to be more popular and make themselves visible to search engines and eventually to users. Website popularity can be measured using several metrics such as the Web traffic (e.g. Website: visitors' number and visited page number). A link or page popularity refers to the total number of hyperlinks referring to a certain Web page. In this study, several top ranked Arabic Websites are selected for evaluating possible Web spam behavior. Websites use spam techniques to boost their ranks within Search Engine Results Page (SERP). Results of this study showed that some of these popular Websites are using techniques that are considered spam techniques according to Search Engine Optimization guidelines.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.005

Volume

27

Issue

2

Comments

© King Saud bin Abdulaziz University. Published under Creative Commons Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.005.

Al-Kabi M.N., Alsmadi I.M., Wahsheh H.A. "Evaluation of Spam Impact on Arabic Websites Popularity," Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, vol. 27, pp. 222-229, 2015.

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