What is web SPAM?

Jeff Kershner

Jun 9, 2008 at 12:04 AM

Updated on Oct 25, 2019 at 7:14 AM

Matt Cutts talks about Web SPAM,. Some great information if you’re looking to trick Google.

SPAM will soon become more dangerous.

Jeff Kershner

Founder of DealerRefresh - 20+ Years of dealership Sales, Management, Training, Marketing and Leadership.

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Andrew Wright
June 9, 2008

Good stuff. Does anyone know of a dealer website company that offers the type of spam fighting applications that Cutts discussed in this video or is it something that we have to go out and get on our own and "bolt on" to our websites? I've been asking Reynolds and Reynolds for this for over a year now. I really like the idea of having someone answer a simple math question before they submit a form.

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Ben
June 10, 2008

Heres somne places for CAPTCHAs

http://www.softplatz.com/shareware/aspnet-captcha/
http://shareme.com/showall/Aspnet-Captcha.html
http://www.fileguru.com/BotDetect-ASP-CAPTCHA/info

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Jake
June 11, 2008

Any of the reputable web development companies will have measures against spam. We began adding captcha images to our client contact forms about a year ago and it cut down TREMENDOUSLY on the amount of spam submissions received. Any of the methods discussed by Cutts are simple and effective.

By the way, I still see a lot of dealers displaying their email address on their site. That's another way to open yourselves up to additional spam.