Abstract: The enhanced detection of search engine spam is provided in which an information resource is selected, the information resource including a plurality of block-level elements, each of the block-level elements are tokenized into attributes, and a first block-level element database is generated indexing the attributes of the first block-level element. Furthermore, the attributes indexed in the first block-level element database are iteratively compared with the attributes of each remaining block-level element, remaining block-level elements are flagged as suspect based on a threshold number of attributes of the remaining block-level elements being present in the first block-level element database, and the information resource is flagged as suspect based on a threshold percentage of the remaining block-level elements being flagged as suspect.