Spam in blogs-Important

Spam in blogs also called simply blog spam, comment spam, or social spam) is a form of  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing(Note that blogspam has another, more common meaning, namely the post of a blogger who creates no-value-added posts to submit them to other sites.) It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guestbook or other publicly accessible onlinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_board  Any web application that accepts and displayshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlinks submitted by visitors may be a target.

Adding links that point to the spammer’s web site artificially increases the site’s search engine ranking. An increased ranking often results in the spammer’s commercial site being listed ahead of other sites for certain searches, increasing the number of potential visitors and paying customers.

Read more:                                         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs

http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/akismet-widget/

http://www.britannica.com/search?query=spam+

http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam

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