webspam

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noun

Material published on the World Wide Web that is designed to attract visitors from search engines, etc., despite offering no useful information, or being a copy of information from elsewhere.

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Meanings

nounwebspam (uncountable)
  1. uncountableMaterial published on the World Wide Web that is designed to attract visitors from search engines, etc., despite offering no useful information, or being a copy of information from elsewhere.

    If you use any methods to mislead the search engines, your page is marked as webspam.

    2008, Andreas Ramos, Stephanie Cota, Search Engine Marketing, page 145
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    Matt Cutts (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/), head of Google's Webspam team, spoke at WordCamp in 2007 and offered some insight into SEO for blogging.

    2008, Aarron Walter, Building findable websites: web standards, SEO, and beyond, page 125

    Webspam is one of the most challenging problems faced by major search engines in the social computing arena.

    2010, David Taniar, Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2010

Origin

From Web + spam.

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APA

webspam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/webspam

MLA

“webspam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/webspam. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “webspam,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/webspam.

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