Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.005
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.
Copyright Statement
This document was originally published in Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences by Elsevier. This work is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. doi: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.005.
Publication Information
Al-Kabi, Mohammed N.; Alsmadi, Izzat M.; and Wahsheh, Heider A.. (2015). "Evaluation of Spam Impact on Arabic Websites Popularity". Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 27(2), 222-229.