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What is user generated spam?
Sometimes, spam can be generated on a good site by malicious users. This spam is usually generated on sites that allow users to create new pages or otherwise add content to the site. Some examples of spammy user-generated content include: Spammy accounts on free hosts. Spammy posts on forum threads.
What is spam Web pages?
(1) Any form of Web page content that is created to improve search rankings without regard to any value for the user. See spamdexing and cloaking. (2) Web pages with many links to other websites. Web spam pages use repetitive text in the copy or meta tags in order to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results.
How are spam pages placed on a website?
Spam pages are placed on the site through exploitation of some vulnerability on the site, either through backdoors, unpatched site code, or compromised administrative, FTP, or other accounts. If you find spam pages on your site, it is important to determine how those pages were placed.
Why is there so much spam on forms?
Adding to that, form spam continues to happen because it works. For example, spammers look for vulnerabilities in your site’s forms so they can hijack them and use them to relay email spam messages to others.
How to get rid of web form spam?
Test their patience with powerful form field validation Blast them with a nice data confirmation screen Nuke ’em with the big one – CAPTCHA Everyone is familiar with regular email spam: The bad guys get hold of your email address and the next thing you know your inbox is filling up with all kinds of junk.
What to do if your Domain Name is being spamvertized?
If your site domain name is being included in spam emails ( spamvertized) , this will usually catch it early and will show an issue during a Wordfence scan. If you have Wordfence email alerts set up, you will be emailed as soon as Wordfence detects this.