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Guestbook Spam: A type of low quality automated link which search engines do not want to place much trust on.

Spamcop: A blacklist and IP-address database, formerly privately owned but now part of the email vendor Ironport. Many ISPs check the IP addresses of incoming email against Spamcop's records to deter . . . View Full Definition

SpamAd Page: A Made For Adsense/Advertisement page which uses scraped or machine generated text for content, and has no real value to users other than the slight value of the adds. Spammers sometimes cre . . . View Full Definition

Spamdexing: Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deceptively modifying web pages to increase the chance of them being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to inf . . . View Full Definition

Spamming: The act of creating and distributing spam.

Spammer: A person who uses spam to pursue a goal.

Spam-Trap Address: An email address that is set up specifically to catch people who are harvesting addresses or using directory attacks to send unsolicited email. Used by Brightmail, ISPs and many in the anti- . . . View Full Definition

Spam: This is to transmit unwanted messages, usually over email, to a great many people.

Comment Spam: Posting blog comments for the purpose of generating an inlink to another site. The reason many blogs use link condoms.

CAN-SPAM: Federal legislation governing unsolicited commercial email that went into effect on January 1, 2004. This law does not prohibit unsolicited commercial email, but it does regulate how it must . . . View Full Definition