Comments on: Trustrank by Yahoo http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/12/trustrank-by-yahoo/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:25:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Joe http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/12/trustrank-by-yahoo/#comment-31605 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:12:45 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2006/08/12/trustrank-by-yahoo/#comment-31605 Not only expired domains, rented subdirectories will be even more important under this plan. I would hope they have some plan to deal with expired domains, though it will be difficult. The subdirectory renting though will be a problem if the scores are made up of the entire site. Possibly they could scan for drastic topical changes between subdirectories, but that isn't going to be a good solution. Spammers could just make their text fit in better and many sites separate different somewhat related content by directories. I suspect it really isn't that much different from what Google is already doing with PageRank though. The last documentation on what makes up PageRank is many years old, TrustRank is different from that, but PageRank certainly has advanced a lot since then and possibly already includes much of what Yahoo has planned. Not only expired domains, rented subdirectories will be even more important under this plan. I would hope they have some plan to deal with expired domains, though it will be difficult. The subdirectory renting though will be a problem if the scores are made up of the entire site. Possibly they could scan for drastic topical changes between subdirectories, but that isn’t going to be a good solution. Spammers could just make their text fit in better and many sites separate different somewhat related content by directories.

I suspect it really isn’t that much different from what Google is already doing with PageRank though. The last documentation on what makes up PageRank is many years old, TrustRank is different from that, but PageRank certainly has advanced a lot since then and possibly already includes much of what Yahoo has planned.

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