blog spam
Unwanted post clutter
Blog spam is unsolicited promotional content posted in blog comments, trackbacks, or pingbacks, typically to generate backlinks for search engine manipulation or to advertise products and services.
The comments often appear generic or irrelevant to the actual post: The article on hiking trails attracted dozens of blog spam comments selling weight loss pills.
Also called comment spam.
- commentBrief stated opinion
- comment sectionSpace for reader responses
- junkWorthless discarded items
- junk mailUnsolicited commercial correspondence
- linksThings that connect
bots · moderation · trackback · SEO · blacklist · filter · automated · scam · phishing · advertising · keywords · backlinks · trolls · WordPress · pingback · casino · fake · harvesting
- web spamcloaking, hidden text, content farms, scraping
blog, spam, blogs, blogged, blogging, blogger, bloggers, spams, spammed