There Is Nothing Wrong With Making Spam Sites

I was quoted by SearchGrit for mentioning I had spam sites, which was an accurate quote.

Of course, what makes a "spam site" is completely subjective, but I don't think it matters, because, There Is Nothing Wrong With Making Spam Sites!

Once upon a time I would sit almost an entire weekend, in front of the keyboard, typing articles for my websites. Oh baby, original content is king, yes and no.

Time after time I would see spam sites, scraper sites, and made for adsense sites ranking WAY above my original text for the same keywords. FRUSTRATING. So I thought to myself:

"Self, if somebody is going to do little to no work to rank higher than you in the engines, it might as well be you!"

After that thought I started diving into autogenerated content, datafeed remixing, mispeling content, scraping content, etc.

Of course I'm very careful how I monetize my spam sites, particularly if the content is scraped, I don't use adsense on scraped sites because adsense says not to, sort of, and when I'm in doubt I email adsense or the affiliate company first to see if I can place their ads on the content.

Even if your spam sites don't earn you a nickel, they are still AWESOME for keyword research, and I regularly check my spam site stats for keywords getting the most hits and then turn around and make REAL content for those phrases.

One more thing, the search engines LIKE spam sites also! You don't think the phd's at google could remove every piece of spam if they wanted to?

Ok maybe not every piece, but there are some techniques that work in google but not in yahoo or msn, do you think google is stupid and yahoo and msn have the better algorithm?

Alternative answer - The search engines ALLOW a certain level of spam. I'm almost convinced, you be the judge, but I'd rather it be my spam if they do allow it ;-)

Furthermore, by spamming the search engines, I can see what works and what doesn't work more than somebody playing by the rules can. I can also incorporate some of the techniques into my "non spam sites".

In conclusion, I don't see any problem with making spam sites, just use caution, ask if in doubt, and have fun!

(edit, the majority of my sites are white hat)

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