No GYM #6: Gary Price on understanding Web Spam

---- Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, leading to a degradation of search results

On what basis is this comment made, it appears that there is obviously less Spam getting high on the SERPs of Major Search Engines, than ever before in the history of Search Engines Web.

Google and MSN have have detailed interviews with their Engineers discussing their effective strategies and tactics for making their SERPs noticeably relevant.

- LINK POPULARITY
- CLICK POPULARITY
- DE-DUPLICATION
- INSTANT BANNING OF HIDDEN TEXT / JAVASCRIPT REDIRECTS

to name but a few ongoing strategies.

One one school of thought is that they are overdoing the ALGOs to the point that only large companies can now get respectable rankings for competative keyphrases.