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

Search Engine Spam: Pages created to cause search engines to deliver inappropriate or less relevant results. Search Engine Optimizers are sometimes unfairly perceived as search engine Spammers. Of course in som . . . View Full Definition

Robot: (robot, spider, crawler) A program which performs a task more or less autonomously. Search engines use bots to find and add web pages to their search indexes. Spammers often use bots to “scr . . . View Full Definition

Crawler: A strike on which the ball misses the head pin. So called because the 4, 2, and 1 pins usually fall slowly, like dominos, after the rest of the pins are down.

Social Media Poisoning (SMP): AAny of several (possibly illegal) black hat techniques designed to implicate a competitor as a spammer - For example blog comment spamming in the name / brand of a competitor

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

Cloaking: Displaying different content to search engines and searchers. Depending on the intent of the display discrepancy and the strength of the brand of the person / company cloaking it may be cons . . . View Full Definition

Whois: Each domain has an owner of record. Ownership data is stored in the Whois record for that domain. Some domain registrars also allow you to hide the ownership data of your sites. Many large s . . . View Full Definition

Bot: An autonomous computer controlled character or opponent, used to mimic the effect of other human players participating. Bots are most often seen in first person shooters, and are often used . . . View Full Definition

Seed Emails: Email addresses placed on a list (sometimes secretly) to determine what messages are sent to the list and/or to track delivery rate and/or visible appearance of delivered messages. Seeds may . . . View Full Definition