Spamdexing

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What Does Spamdexing Mean?

Spamdexing is the practice of keyword stuffing or otherwise manipulating an index for a website with the intention of increasing the website’s ranking with search engines.

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Techopedia Explains Spamdexing

Spamdexing is technically a part of the process called search engine optimization (SEO), in which Web designers/developers build websites that are expected to rank high on search engine results page. However, the IT community has generally categorized spamdexing as part of “black hat SEO,” which is the use of unethical methods to rank websites.

The methods used for spamdexing vary, including the creation of dummy content pages, keyword stuffing in meta-tags or otherwise promoting specific index results. Along with many other kinds of black hat SEO techniques, spamdexing has been a major source of frustration for dominant search engine operator Google as the company keeps creating new algorithms for rewarding honest sites and punishing unscrupulous ones. Some kinds of spamdexing and black hat SEO techniques have become generally obsolete as Google algorithms get updated and have changed the way that Internet sites are ranked.

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Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist

Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.