What is search engine spam?

October 9th, 2009, 4:17 am

What is search engine spam? Why is it a bad idea? Is there a SE spam classification?

October 13th, 2009, 2:46 am

Search engine spam is using the freedom provided by search engines ion wrong way. Generally people who uses search engines as a marketing channels does the search engine spam.

October 13th, 2009, 10:07 pm

Anything with the word "spam" is always a bad idea.

Most of them are pages built primarily for the search engines or pages with excessive or off-topic keywords. These pages belong to the same website that appear in search results with the intent to deceive or attract clicks.

At this time, Recession Spurs Search Engine Spammers. Making it even worse. Check out this article I found: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/i ... aid=101061

October 18th, 2009, 7:31 am

I think each search engine has its own definition fo what constitutes search engine spam.But the common search engine spam are doorway pages ,hidden text and mirror sites.

October 18th, 2009, 10:04 pm

alanwalters wrote:

I think each search engine has its own definition fo what constitutes search engine spam.But the common search engine spam are doorway pages ,hidden text and mirror sites.

Hidden text or cloaking is more like of Black Hat SEO. You can't do that in search engine listing, can you?

October 19th, 2009, 4:28 am

Black Hat SEO also is a name given to spam, and it never is considered good for any website or business.

November 4th, 2009, 11:10 pm

Search engine spam is the excessive manipulation to influence search engine rankings, often for pages which contain little or no relevant content.Many search engines check for instances of spamdexing and will remove suspect pages from their indexes. Generally it is defined as the Pages that harm accuracy, diversity or relevance of search results.

November 5th, 2009, 8:33 am

But still you need to distinguish spam from seo...no one can be prevented from making his website rank well. People just need to remember that a position earned due to spam will not hold for a long time.