Bing: URL Keyword Stuffing and Detection

[engine]

According to Bing, it uses a number of signals to help detect url keyword stuffing. This post by Bing wouldn't give away any secrets, but it's clear that Bing know what they are looking for. Does it reflect in the SERPs?

we look at a number of signals that suggest possible use of URL keyword stuffing, such as:

Site size

Number of hosts

Number of words in host/ domain names and path

Host/ domain/ path keyword co-occurrence (inc. unigrams and bigrams)

% of the site cluster comprised of top frequency host/ domain name keywords

Host/ domain names containing certain lexicons/ pattern combinations (e.g. [“year”, “event | product name”]

Site/page content quality & popularity signals

To amplify this, we try to cluster sites (by various pivots such as domain, owner, etc…) and then look for patterns of the signals listed above in the same cluster. This helps improve detection precision because spammers often create dozens/ hundreds of similar looking sites.Bing: URL Keyword Stuffing and Detection [blogs.bing.com]

[ken_b]

Am I reading or understanding this wrong?

[“year”, “event | product name”]

So if you have an events calendar (local or national) they don't want you to use a url like:

example.com/state/2014/eventname.htm
.

Can that possibly be right?

[phranque]

Am I reading or understanding this wrong?

yes.

Host/ domain names containing

vs

a url like:

[Wilburforce]

Might this explain why my site has just dropped to page 2 for main key term?

[eurohttp]

I am more interested in site size and quality