Reporting Spam to Search Engines

Spam is an abuse of electronic message systems to send unsolicited bulk messages abroad. The volume of unsolicited mail has become very high in recent years. Spamming is inexpensive since the only cost involved is mailing list management, and it's hard to hold senders accountable for mass mailings. Internet users can benefit when violators are removed from the search engine index for spam.

People that create electronic spam, called spammers, are numerous. Spamming has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions. Generally, websites found guilty of spam are removed from search engine indexes. Internet users can facilitate this process by reporting spam to search engines.

Search engine operators use automated software technology to minimize spam. Since this often fails so they now accept and review spam reports. If one of your small business website competitors uses spam, you can benefit when violators are removed from the search engine index.

Email spam is the most widely recognized form of spam, although the term can be applied to similar abuses in other media:
Instant messaging spam
Usenet newsgroup spam
Web search engine spam
Spam in blogs
Wiki spam
Online classified ads spam
Mobile phone messaging spam
Internet forum spam
Junk fax transmissions
File sharing network spam

Web pages to report spam to the major search engines:
Google Spam Report
Yahoo Search Spam Report
AltaVista Spam Report

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