Spamvertising is the practice of vandalizing wikis and blogs in order to get a higher search engine ranking for the vandal's website.

Spamvertisers insert links to their websites (typically, sites purporting to sell some commercial product) and add keywords of common or related searches. The apparent goal is that a search engine will find the vandalized page full of links and improve the popularity rating of the pages to which they link.

External links

• The website Chongqed.org (http://chongqed.org) maintains a list of spamvertisers (http://spammers.chongqed.org) and some suggestions for how to deal with them.