Is keyword spamming and keyword crowding synonyms?
 

What is keyword spamming and keyword crowding? Are these black hat activities?

Keyword spamming/ stuffing/ crowding can be used interchangebly. They all refer to practice of loading a webpage (content, meta tags) with excessive/ unnecessary keywords with an intent to manipulate SERP results.

Since its a shady way of gaming the search engines, it can be termed black hat activity.

Keyword spamming/ stuffing/ crowding can be used interchangebly. They all refer to practice of loading a webpage (content, meta tags) with excessive/ unnecessary keywords with an intent to manipulate SERP results.

Since its a shady way of gaming the search engines, it can be termed black hat activity.