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Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately creating web pages which will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned. Many designers of web pages try to get a good ranking in search engines and design their pages accordingly. The word is a portmanteau of spamming and indexing.
Spamdexing refers exclusively to practices that are dishonest and mislead search and indexing programs to give a page a ranking it does not deserve. "White hat" techniques for making a website indexable by search engines, without misleading the indexing process, are known as search engine optimization (SEO). SEO techniques do not involve deceit.
Search engine spammers, on the contrary, are generally aware that the content that they promote is not very useful or relevant to the ordinary internet surfer. Search engines use a variety of algorithms to determine relevancy ranking. Some of these include determining whether the search term appears in the META keywords tag, others whether the search term appears in the body text of a web page. A variety of techniques are used to spamdex (see below). Many search engines check for instances of spamdexing and will remove suspect pages from their indexes.
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@sarahmsalter Had my 1st spam comment today. Not too bad. But I guess this means I'll have to start doing that read 'em before posting thing
makeadiff21 (MakeADifferenceToOne) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:43:58 -0000
@sarahmsalter Had my 1st spam comment today. Not too bad. But I guess this means I'll have to start doing that read 'em before posting thing
@RealtorJimLee It's like comment spam I get on my blog...inserting his url not once but twice. Yeesh!
boomerjack (Jack M. Boardman) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:04:28 -0000
@RealtorJimLee It's like comment spam I get on my blog...inserting his url not once but twice. Yeesh!
Just added some code to hopefully block comment spam on chicago photobloggers. Stupid bots.
dinoact (John Schroeder) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:27:55 -0000
Just added some code to hopefully block comment spam on chicago photobloggers. Stupid bots.
Just got creative comment spam: "Fantastic site. Is there a donation button somewhere? Want to be sure you keep blogging."
AlanBleiweiss (Alan Bleiweiss) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:58:33 -0000
Just got creative comment spam: "Fantastic site. Is there a donation button somewhere? Want to be sure you keep blogging."
Comment spam on sit is up. I should be flattered as it means the page rank must be going up too (why else would they spam me?).
thewritestuff1 (thewritestuff1) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:27:58 -0000
Comment spam on sit is up. I should be flattered as it means the page rank must be going up too (why else would they spam me?).
@pickledpolitics - I point out you lied about the Fox news clip and you marked the comment as spam? Doesn't fit your race-based agenda.
cloudsoup (David Jones) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:51:23 -0000
@pickledpolitics - I point out you lied about the Fox news clip and you marked the comment as spam? Doesn't fit your race-based agenda.
BBC News - How spammers are targeting blogs - Spammers are turning their attention to weblogs, angering technology analyst Bill Thompson. He calls it flyblogging.
Meta Description: [ Spammers are now turning their attention to weblogs, angering technology analyst Bill Thompson. ]
Big Fractal Tangle: Designing For Lowlifes - Discusses how better, smarter tools are needed to block or remove comment spam in realtime.
Meta Description: [ keeping it real on the semantic web ]
Blog Spam Database - Database of URLs and phrases often used by spammers, along with links to related resources and a discussion forum.
Blogspam.org - Anti-Comment Spam Tactics - Series of steps to stop spam in your blogs.
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Comment Spam: Google's Toxic Waste Dump - Offers a few suggestions to Google and weblog publishers to thwart those who think they can make money spamming blogs.
Internetnews.com - Six Apart Trains Guns on 'Comment Spam' - The blog tools vendor Six Apart plans to roll out an open online authentication system to fight the growing phenomenon of comment spam.
Meta Description: [ The blog tools vendor plans to roll out an open online authentication system
to fight the growing scourge of comment spam.
]
Jeremy Zawodny's Blog - Guerilla Tactics Against Blog Comment Spammers - Suggestion that bloggers create posts that target the same spammy phrases that blog spammers want Google to find.
Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: Using mod_rewrite against comment spam bots - Very short tutorial.
Kalsey Consulting Group - Comment Spam Manifesto - Weblogger crystallizes the thoughts of many in declaring a cyberwar on those who inappropriately post in guestbooks and weblogs.
Learning Movable Type: Concerning Spam - Types of spam seen on blogs.
MSNBC - Spammers now clogging blogs, IM - Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging and weblog comments.
Meta Description: [ Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging — even in Web log feedback. ]
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse - A centralized blacklist database of blog spam URLs.
No Guestbook Spam Anymore - Offers instructions for webmasters for avoiding and eliminating spam in guestbook.
Meta Description: [ Create NO spam guestbook ]
OJR : Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? - Here's a look at the battle so far.
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raelity bytes - Can't add? Can't post - Simple spamfighting method which assumes comment spam bots can't add.
Simon Willison's Weblog - Solving Comment Spam - Feasible ways to stop or thwart comment spam.
Simon Willison: Blacklisting Comment Spam - One man's efforts to create and maintain a blacklist.
Six Log: Comment Spam - Spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google. Here are some steps to take to reduce or eliminate this problem.
Spam Huntress - Spam cleaning for blogs - Spam huntress dissects blogspam.
Typepad Vs. Commentspam - The steps that Typepad has taken in order to rid its users of spam comments.
Meta Description: [ The official blog of TypePad, the hosted blogging service preferred by passionate bloggers, professionals and small businesses. ]
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Wild Mind - Essays about comment spam and how one blogger is fighting it.
Wired - Googlemania: The (Evil) Genius of Comment Spammers - Background of the phenomenon of comment spam and how bloggers responded.
Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs - Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.
Meta Description: [ Get in-depth tech news coverage from Wired and read about how it is shaping culture, education, entertainment, communications and technology. ]
Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog - A list of tips aimed at webloggers to reduce the problem of comment spam.
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