How a Search Engine May Identify Undesirable Web Pages By Analyzing Inlinks

[HTMLBasicTutor]

What do you think about the patent application Yahoo has? Think it will cut down on search results manipulation?

The term “undesirable web pages” is used in a patent application from Yahoo published today to refer to pages that rank highly in search results based upon links pointed to those pages solely for the purpose of increasing their rankings for specific queries even though those pages may not be very relevant for the query terms in question.

“Undesirable” appears to indicate that these are pages that Yahoo doesn’t want ranking well in search results at their search engine.

So, what might Yahoo (and possibly other search engines) look at to determine whether a page is undesirable based upon the links it sees to that page?

Continued: How a Search Engine May Identify Undesirable Web Pages By Analyzing Inlinks

[full house]

I guess by filtering some undesirable words or words that are repeatedly scrawl with in a page.

[Puripong]

This is almost similar to overdoing link building. If you have built links based for only 1-2 anchor texts then it would be identical pattern for major search engines, especially Google. I assume the more natural of varying anchor texts, the better ranking for overall keywords you built it.