What is search engine spam?
Search engine spam is defined as pages created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results. Examples of search engine spam are: • Submitting MLM sites (eg. Make money fast!!!) to inappropriate categories. • Submitting domains that are for sale and offer no useful content • Submitting keyword stuffed websites • Submitting a mirror site • Submitting a website that redirects to another site • Submitting a website that uses a doorway page. A doorway page is page created specifically for search engines and is optimized for specific phrases that generate large amounts of traffic. Generally these pages are totally unrelated to the site’s content, hence the spam categorization. • Submitting machine generated web pages. • Submitting websites with offensive content to inappropriate categories. • Submitting websites that offer no content other than links to other websites. Search engines do not add these types of websites to their
