Spamming your way to a better blog
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Found, while cleaning out some old blog drafts, was one of the ideas that popped into my head last summer: Is there a way to leverage blog spam to improve search engine standing?
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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Found, while cleaning out some old blog drafts, was one of the ideas that popped into my head last summer: Is there a way to leverage blog spam to improve search engine standing?
I had an idea to create an open posted blog—one which had no limits for registration, commenting or posting—and encourage spammers to use it. It wouldn’t much matter what the content turned out to be, since I didn’t plan on reading it for about a year. For every new post, I would write a matching one on the topic of my choice. Then, after all those pages have found their way out into the world and linked up the wazoo from other spammy sites, I would close it up and replace all of the bad content with meaningful posts.
Would that create search engine recognition that would boost position? Or would the historic spamminess of the original posts permanently kill it?
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