[pchelpers] Article:Spamming the Search Engines

17 Jan 2008
By Frederick Townes
What is search engine spam, and how does it affect me?

Most of us think of spam as junk email. Search engine spam is different.
Search engine spam is any means of manipulating search engine spiders to
artificially boost a website's page rank or positioning on search engine
results pages. In other words, search engine spam is any tactic employed
by site owners to fool search engine spiders. Not a good idea.

What is and isn't spam?
Every search engine has its own definition of what constitutes search
engine spam so, in essence, spam is whatever search engine geeks say it
is. However, there's an obvious, widespread consensus among search
engine professionals as to what constitutes spam. Further, search engine
information pages provide clear guidelines for what they consider
acceptable and unacceptable practices.

Three of the most common search engine spam tactics are hidden text,
doorway pages and mirror sites. Let's look at each one.

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