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Definitions of Spam

Spam is most commonly thought of as unwanted junk email. In reference to websites spam can also refer to websites that are intentionally trying to exploit the search engines to gain position and site traffic. "Spam" sites often look as if they were designed only for the search engine, and not for the user. Tim Mayer, Director of Product Management for Yahoo Search defined spam as "pages created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results." This definition of Spam contributed by jimolenbush.
With regards to Google index spam, spam is most often used as the acronym S.P.A.M: Sites Performing Above Mine This definition of Spam contributed by eric-bramlett.