What is meant by the term SPAMMING as it relates to Search Engine Optimization or SEO?
A. In the early days of the Internet search engines certain hidden codes were placed in web sites to assist a search engine in placing it in the proper search category so researchers could easily find your site. To the search engine company then, relevant searches for users was the most important service they had to sell. As competition for the top space of natural ranked listings became heated, many businesses abused that coding and did other things to artificially raise themselves to the top for their particular business terms. The search engine companies then countered to change the rules they used for placing a website in a top spot. Those new rules were later figured out and worked around. The war still goes on today but the four main search engines have set stiff penalties for people who obviously circumvent their rules for search engine ranking. The severest penalty of banishment of the website from the database is frequently assessed for violators of these rules. It is even don
