What is the real meaning of spamming

[susapra]

Hi there!

Does anyone there can tell the meaning of spamming. What is your own understanding of the real meaning of spamming.

Topic about posting to yahoo groups. How can you tell that somebody is spamming in your groups?

Thanks


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[msliz]

I generally consider spamming as someone that makes posts or sends emails with a clear intent of promoting themselves or their products.

Spammers don't offer any useful information to the topic at hand, they simply make comments or supply links that promote their agenda, there's no intent to contribute useful information or offer help, they simply promote.

Does that help?

[lindastacy]

[robert adams]

[kanchisu]

[ChrisKellum]

Well, since this is the SEO forum . . .

Spam is an acronym - it stands for Sites Positioned Above Mine

But in all seriousness, when it comes to search engine spam, I see that as any web page that uses deceptive practices, either in how it appears to search engine spiders and/or consumers, or in how it gets its rankings.

As a for-instance, cloaking and showing bots (or better yet, all Mountain View, California IP addresses ) one page and consumers another is definitely spam. Using hidden text, hidden links, or collecting links through questionable means (like a visitor counter that you have available for free, but that also contains a small, anchor text optimized link to your target page) is also spam.

Also, hacking another person's site and hiding pages on their domain, whether with the intention to grab rankings/traffic, or just to dilute their site's "theme" in Google's eyes, and kill their rankings, is most certainly spam.