What is SEO Spam?
SEO spam is what attackers will inject into a website to attempt to use your SEO ranking for something else not ranked otherwise that will further the attackers’ objective. They spam and destroy the website while trying to generate revenue or achieve some other goal.
Due to this, generally, the website owner is completely unaware of what’s going on unless they receive warnings or are added to blocklists.
Usually, a hacker will try to avoid being detected by rearranging links that aren’t visible to the average site visitor and only crawlers/index engines can see it.
How to Identify & Remove SEO Spam
SEO spam can be found on a site in a multitude of ways, depending on how the site is built. A lot of the time site owners may not know they’ve had SEO spam injected unless they’ve actively checked their site through search engine tools and scanners or received some alert or a report from one of their visitors.
A site owner may find hundreds or even thousands of spammy blog posts inserted into their blog, or their legit blog posts injected with SEO spam.
A lot of the time you can also catch SEO spam within modified themes files (header.php, footer.php, index.php, functions.php). Shady plugins can also be a culprit in some cases too, or entire directories placed into the file structure with thousands of spam files.
Here’s an example of what SEO spam can look like:
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