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Meaning of webspam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”
“If you use any methods to mislead the search engines, your page is marked as webspam.”
“Webspam is one of the most challenging problems faced by major search engines in the social computing arena.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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