A serious SKA question for AtW

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AtW replied

22 August 2010, 11:30
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

I think HAB is talking about link-farming, and the answer is SKA doesn't try to treat them specially or detect such things?

SKA shows data "as found" with a few additional metrics that allow human analyst to decide if this link is indeed valuable or not.

In the near future we'll be adding more metrics to help reach such decision quicker.
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d000hg replied

22 August 2010, 11:20
I think HAB is talking about link-farming, and the answer is SKA doesn't try to treat them specially or detect such things? Doesn't Google try to detect where several sites all link a lot to each other, and discount the importance of those links? You rarely seem to get spam sites coming top in Google searches so I assume they use heuristics and other algorithms to try and detect this stuff.
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OwlHoot replied

22 August 2010, 11:18
Originally posted by AtW View Post

SKA remembers outgoing links found on crawled pages and tries to follow them at later date - some links might redirect to another location (tinyurl.com is good example), sometimes (especially with ads) it is not possible to follow them due to robots.txt restrictions.

Sounds like web crawling has some similarities to disassembling. That's another situation where one has to trawl through jump and call "links", and defer these for later examination.
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AtW replied

22 August 2010, 11:12
Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post

So there is difference between legit and bogus backlinks?

What do you mean by "bonus"?

Backlink is a backlink - some come from less important sites, some from more: SKA can see that reasonably well.

Human analysis can pick up a lot of other stuff such as quality of site, whether it looks like paid link or not etc.
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HairyArsedBloke replied

22 August 2010, 11:09
So there is difference between legit and bogus backlinks?
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AtW replied

22 August 2010, 10:21
SKA remembers outgoing links found on crawled pages and tries to follow them at later date - some links might redirect to another location (tinyurl.com is good example), sometimes (especially with ads) it is not possible to follow them due to robots.txt restrictions.
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HairyArsedBloke started a topic A serious SKA question for AtW

22 August 2010, 10:03
A serious SKA question for AtW

On StatCounter I get an Ad for 1,000 backlinks for $9.99.

Now I know why and all that, but what I am wondering is how SKA treats them. Does it treat them in the same way as all the other links in your database including those to pages that no longer exists?
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