Home › Words › W › webspamwebspamwebspam 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.EtymologyFrom Web + spam.nounMaterial 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.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.spamvertising 65% match — The practice of sending spam email, or of posting similar material on a wiki, blog or notice board, in order to advertise or attract search engines to a website. vs webspam →blogspam 64% match — promotional material posted to a weblog, often one specifically created for the purpose vs webspam →spamblog 62% match — A weblog used to disseminate spam, rather than actual original content. vs webspam →webshite 58% match — A bad website. vs webspam →cyberjunk 58% match — Worthless material on the Internet. vs webspam →splog 56% match — A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam. vs webspam →sping 55% match — The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam. vs webspam →googlebomb 55% match — To fill a web page with links or words in order to gain a high Google page ranking. vs webspam →