Harnessing the Power of Website Categorization
This article details the transformative and pivotal role of website categorization in shaping, enhancing, and protecting digital experiences.
zvelo collects, processes, and analyzes a continuous stream of URLs, representing the ActiveWeb traffic generated by its partner networks which service more than 1 billion end users globally. zvelo uses a proprietary AI-based URL classification engine for industry-leading accuracy and coverage in web content classification, as well as premium detections for objectionable, sensitive, malicious and phishing threats.
Politics and News: The Growing Trend of Content as the New Clickbait
Over the past decade, the use of “clickbait” ads has become the norm in order to entice viewers to click on the ad and drive traffic to a publisher. Web surfers have grown accustomed to seeing the same types of clickbait ads and sponsored stories like the ones shown below with sensational headlines about curing cancer, stopping aging, improving your sex life and more.
Full Path URL Content Classification
Given the dynamic nature of the majority of today’s websites, categorization at the full path URL versus the base domain is superior and now required. Parts of a website include the top-level domain (.com, .org, etc.), the base domain (example.com), sub-domain (subdomain.example.com) or sub-path (example.com/page). When categorizing content, it is highly important to recognize exactly what is being classified within a website because content can differ dramatically across full path URLs.