word spamming

word spamming

(World-Wide Web, information science)Repeating a word manytimes in a web page, in a (usually futile) attempt toincrease its relevance ranking in a search engine's index(to "spam" the index).

"Repeating a word over and over in a Web page (known as wordspamming) has no effect on the [page's] ranking [in theindex]." -- Altavista FAQ.

See also spamdex.