Chapter 3: Identifying and Reporting Spam
In This Chapter
Knowing spam when you see it
Avoiding spam on your own web site
Reporting spam violations to the search engines
Recognizing paid links
Reporting paid links for the search engines to investigate
Understanding click fraud
When you hear the word spam, it might make you think of the many unwanted e-mails littering your inbox. Or maybe the first thing that comes to mind is a can of processed meat. (Mmmmmm, processed meat . . .) But in the world of search engine optimization (SEO), spam is any deceptive tactic used on a web site to fool the search engines about what that site is about.
In this chapter, we recap the different types of spam polluting the Internet. Although we describe the different forms of spam in-depth in Book I, Chapter 6, in this chapter, we explain what you can do to clean it up if you find it on your own site ...
