# Spam or not? Eight situations (exercise A8.2)

Read each situation. For each one, choose: **Fine**, or **spam** with the type from lesson 8.2:
Hidden text, Keyword stuffing, Cloaking, Doorway pages, Link spam, Scaled content abuse,
Site reputation abuse, Expired domain abuse.

1. Bloemenatelier Lotte pays a regional wedding guide for a listing. The link to https://www.example.com
   appears in the guide with `rel="sponsored"`.

2. A web developer puts the following text at the bottom of every page of example.com, in white letters on a white background:
   "bloemist Amersfoort bloemen bezorgen Amersfoort rouwbloemen Amersfoort" (florist Amersfoort, flower delivery Amersfoort, funeral flowers Amersfoort).

3. An agency creates 40 pages for example.com titled "Bloemen bezorgen in <plaats>" (Flower delivery in <town>), each with the same text and only
   a different town name. Every page has a button to the same order page.

4. Lotte uses an AI tool to help her write an article about caring for a bridal bouquet. She checks the
   text, adds her own photos and her fifteen years of experience, and publishes one article.

5. The server of example.net shows Googlebot a long page full of text about garden landscaping, and shows regular visitors a
   page with nothing but casino advertising.

6. Someone buys the expired domain of a football club that no longer exists and puts hundreds of short articles about loans on it,
   to ride on the links the club received over the years.

7. An SEO agency offers a "250 backlinks per month" package: links on blogs that, for a fixed fee per link, place a
   regular link (without `rel`) to example.com.

8. Example.org is a well-known news site. Without any involvement from the editorial team, the site hosts a folder of
   discount code pages supplied by another company, purely to rank high on the news site's reputation.