What is Spam ?

byKAziguen

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Updated 10 years ago

Every sports man/woman, regardless of how good he/she may be at their sport, they can't score points or win games if they are suspended from the game or limited to the penalty box.

The same for an Internet Marketer, you need to know how to stay out of the penalty box while discovering the strings of Internet Income. You can get into big problems by using "Spam." You can also be blocked or banned from different sites for posting spammy comments. You can get into trouble with the search engines by trying to game your way into the ranking position with cheap stuff. There are many ways you can sabotage your marketing campaigns if you can not use common sense and track the Basic Rules to avoid these errors.

What is Spam?

There are several definitions of Spam, many different jurisdictions have divergent regulations referring to the many possible ways to inflict undesirable electronic communication on others. Before we thought of Spam as main purpose is E-mail. As the Internet has developed many new ways to communicate, so have the spam rules evolved to cover many new circumstances. In terms of E-mail, the common sense explanation is that Spam occurs when someone receives annoying E-mails that they did not asked, from people or organizations that they don't know, trying to sell them stuff that they do not need or want. Extending this idea to social media, blogs, and almost any other opportunity one has to type content view by the public, you can think of Spam as something which is designed to sell something or promote something that is a distraction for the desired conversational subject.

Present day, experience has demonstrated that there are many ways to Spam, you can Spam not only by sending unsolicited commercial E-mail but by posting unwanted comments on blogs or social media postings or by sending unsolicited text messages, also you can Spam in forums or even while by providing product reviews on sites such as Amazon, etc....

The Aftermath of Spam?

Spam can have negative Aftemath to varying degrees, short of being banned from a particular site altogether, spammy comments may cause particular individuals to stop following you or block you from commenting.

For example, let say a connection on a social media site like Facebook, makes a post welcoming themselves for having survived their first race, several friends like the post and comment with their congratulations and encouragement, but, let's say, you comment that it would be even simpler to survive the next run if they bought some running shoes that you have to sell via an affiliate arrangement.

Your comment is inappropriate because it is a distraction to the intended subject of the conversation. While you will not likely be banned from Facebook for having made this comment, the poster and some of the others viewing this post and its comments may decide to hide you, or even to block you, because they do not want to see these types of comments. These are people that might be, when the situation was more appropriate, wishing to learn about the running shoes you had to offer.

But now that opportunity will never happen, you have disabled your marketing efforts by posting a spammy comment. It might take a few of these type of comments before someone actually hided you or blocked you, but even one such comment can be too many. Why risk it?

Right now, let's look at several example. Imagine that a friend of yours on Facebook posted that they tried to run their first race, but had to leave early because their shoes were killing their feet, here, the desired subject of the conversation is different, after expressing the suitable condolences for the failed attempt and supplying encouragement to try again, discussing shoes naturally follows, for this post, it would be appropriate to suggest the running shoes you have to offer. And no one will likely hide you, or block you because of your comment here. It's all common sense.

The Aftermath Of Spam can extend much further than lose the attention of a few people on a particular social media site, however. You can be blocked from the whole ISP " Internet Service provider " .

You can be included on spam lists preventing your E-mail from getting through most E-mail servers, and thereby making your Email unusable for any purpose. Some jurisdictions have financial penalties and even criminal convictions for violating the laws interdict spam. It can be a serious problem beyond the negative effect it has on your marketing efforts.