Search Engine Spam

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Taken from the Search Engine Strategies Conference, December 2004, Chicago

Source: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3483601

Sixteen flavors of search engine spam
Thurow next presented a slide that contained a comprehensive list of sixteen tactics that are considered search engine spam. These techniques include:

Keywords unrelated to site
Redirects
Keyword stuffing
Mirror/duplicate content
Tiny Text
Doorway pages
Link Farms
Cloaking
Keyword stacking
Gibberish
Hidden text
Domain Spam
Hidden links
Mini/micro-sites
Page Swapping (bait &switch)
Typo spam and cyber squatting
Yahoo's Mayer echoed Thurow's warnings about spamming the engines. He explained that Yahoo! (and the other engines) take spam very seriously and spend a great deal of time and effort trying to eliminate spam techniques.

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