15 Shades of SEO Spam

[mandy]

In the search engine optimization field, Spam is used to describe techniques and tactics thought to be banned by search engines or to be unethical business practices.

While writing copy for our soon to be revised website, the team put together a short list of the most outrageous forms of Spam we had seen in the last year and a short explanation of the technique.

full article: http://www.searchengineguide.com/hedger/006557.html

Forms of SEO spam covered include: 1. Cloaking, 2. IP Delivery, 3. Leader Pages, 4. Mini-Site networks, 5. Link Farms, 6. Blog and/or Forum Spam, 7. Keyword Stuffing, 8. Hidden Text, 9. Useless Meta Tags, 10. Misuse of Directories, 11. Hidden Tags, 12. Organic Site Submissions, 13. Email Spam, 14. Redirect Spam, and 15. Misuse of Web 2.0 Formats (ie Wiki, social networking and social tagging)