What Does This Mean?
Content or links created mainly to manipulate search engine rankings rather than to help readers, such as pages stuffed with keywords or mass-produced pages with little original value. Search engines treat it as a violation of their spam policies.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The recipe site turned into SEO spam: ten paragraphs of keywords before any actual recipe.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Google's spam policies define spam as techniques that deceive users or manipulate search systems into featuring content prominently, and list keyword stuffing and scaled content abuse (many low-value pages made mainly to rank) among them. Wikipedia describes the older practice as spamdexing or black-hat SEO, including keyword stuffing and link farms, and notes that search engines now favor useful original content.
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