Turning Spam Into Gold V 2.0
I have made it a sport of sorts out of spam. For every one good comments that I get here I also get another 19 that are useless spam. Except this spam can actually benefit the smart blog owner. Here is how it works. Search engine reward fresh content and it does have to be relevant content. And this is why I know that it is so.
When I started this blog back in 2008 I produced some very good Do Follow lists. This only produced lots of spam for my site and for those blogs mentioned in my lists. I really regret this, but it is what it is. I learned and I ended up removing the lists but not the posts. That was over a year ago, but just about all the posts associated with those lists are still ranking on the first page of Google. I have not actively marketed these lists in a very long time so I am not getting a bunch of links nor am I building links for these posts.
These posts have stayed high in the Google search rankings because greedy spammers still continue to spam the posts even though the lists have long been removed. What I am serving up are basically useless pages. I use these spammy comments that are at least 150 characters in length but I remove the link. The reality here is that I am spamming the spammers. They continue to visit and leave spam and I in turn use their comments and I continue rank well.
I know its silly, but that’s ok with me. I will eventually remove the lists when I get bored and I am not bored yet. I also use these posts to prove a point and that is that content is not the king of SEO.
Here is the original post Turning Spam Into Gold:
We are not talking about Hormel here. What I’m about to suggest will seem reasonable to many and some will see this as unethical, but here it goes. We, who market on the Internet or those who simply have an email account or two, deal with spam daily. It is a sad fact of life that our mail boxes and blog comments are filled with spam, those unwanted pieces of electronic drivel.
I am going to address the spam that arrives in my Akismet blog spam filter. Since we moderate our comments nothing slips through onto the pages of our blog without are approval. We are going to suggest a solution for turning this putrid junk into gold.
We have no real recommendations for those solicitations that are merely a bunch of links. You are on your own on this one. What we are addressing are the comments that arrive daily and that sometimes includes text right out of your blog. It often has the appearance of a trackback. The spammers hope that your spam filter will not pick this up and the comment slips into your blog. Maybe, just maybe, someone clicks onto that link and visits there site. Spammers after all play a numbers game.
Now, this is where you can turn this into gold, comment gold. You can edit the track back style comment or have a friend do it for you. We suggest changing the name and deleting the email and website address. Then change the comment to whatever you would think best adds to the on-going blog conversation. You have now created value, or gold, out of spam.
This was written as linkbait, and while some will see it as unethical, others will see it as Gold.
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