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webspam

webspam 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.

Noun

webspam (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of webspam

From Web + spam.

Questions about webspam

What does webspam mean?
Webspam means 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.
What part of speech is webspam?
Webspam is a noun.

Words near webspam in the dictionary

  1. webslingers
  2. websmith
  3. websmiths
  4. webspace
  5. webspaces
  6. webspam
  7. webspeak
  8. webspinner
  9. webspinners
  10. websquatter
  11. websquatters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: webspam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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