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word spamming

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Repeating a word many times in a web page, in a (usually futile) attempt to increase its relevance ranking in a search engine's index (to "spam" the index).

"Repeating a word over and over in a Web page (known as word spamming) has no effect on the [page's] ranking [in the index]." -- altavista faq.

See also spamdex.

 
 See Also: information science, World-Wide Web

 

 

 

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