It might be "widely understood on the internet" (whatever that's worth) - but if you talk to katoey they'll tell you that it (katoey) is a term that describes cross-dressers (with no intention of surgery) and those that have had surgery (transvestites and transexuals). They don't like people calling them "ladyboys" and consider it derogatory. [My favorite Thai restaurant is owned by a pair of katoey.]
Spammers are idiots - what they do is supposed to be SEO, but it:- doesn't do what it claims to do - confer SERP by transferring rank from the site that is spammed to the linked site using the anchor word/term as a keyword (most CMSs and wikis use
nofollow on external links - so google ignores them for reputation ranking); it does get the SEO client (sucker) ranking penalties from Google (which is why you sometimes see emails from site owners asking forums and mailing lists to remove spam linked to them); and it confuses clients who somehow believe good site design and content is not what gets site rank in search results.
Spammers are usually poor, uneducated people trying to make a few dollars a day by reducing the quality of posts to blogs/websites/wikis/mailing lists. So I don't share your optimism that we'll ever be rid of it (that would require people to stop buying SEO).
The only winner is the company that sells the snake-oil called SEO. Some sites encourage them so that they can "flip" the sites to the unwary and uninformed who mistake spammers for site subscribers. 500 visitors a day! (10 are bots, 450 are spammers, and the rest are actual visitors). You can spot them by the names used in the "who's logged in" section, and the gibberish posts that are just excuses to include a link to "their homepage".
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This is most interesting, I will tells my friends. What theme you use - very nice.
Actual SEO spam I received (in Australia all unsolicited commercial email is considered spam - and illegal). I get several of these a week, and my site
is ranked in the top half of the first results page for the keywords associated with the business.
Hi,
I was going through your website and I found it impressive!!! However, when I search for your business keywords I see your competitors ranked on 1st page whereas I am unable to see your website anywhere on the 1st page of Google.
You being not ranked there on top, you are missing out on all those easy prospects who have been searching for your products/services aggressively.
75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results.
Don’t you think you should rank on 1st page of Google so as your prospects can easily land on your website, put an enquiry and you can contact them for business?