spamdexing
Sign in to saveAlso known as search engine spam, search engine spamming, search engine poisoning, black-hat search engine optimization, black-hat SEO, search spam, search spamming, web spam
Spamdexing (also known as search engine spam, search engine poisoning, black-hat search engine optimization, search spam or web spam) is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes. It involves a number of methods, such as link building and repeating related or unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevance or prominence of resources indexed in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system.
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- Overview
- History
- Content spam
- Keyword stuffing
- Hidden or invisible text
- Meta-tag stuffing
- Doorway pages
- Scraper sites
- Article spinning
- Machine translation
- Link spam
- Link farms
- Private blog networks
- Hidden links
- Sybil attack
- Spam blogs
- Guest blog spam
- Buying expired domains
- Using world-writable pages
- Spam in blogs
- Comment spam
- Wiki spam
- Referrer log spamming
- Countermeasures
- Other types
- Mirror websites
- URL redirection
- Cloaking
- Countermeasures
- Page omission by search engine
- Page omission by user
- See also
- References
- External links
Spamdexing (also known as search engine spam, search engine poisoning, black-hat search engine optimization, search spam or web spam) is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes. It involves a number of methods, such as link building and repeating related or unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevance or prominence of resources indexed in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system.
Spamdexing could be considered to be a part of search engine optimization, although there are many SEO methods that improve the quality and appearance of the content of web sites and serve content useful to many users.