Remember Daniel of “Daniel Spam”? Well, his buddy Eric has joined him. Unlike Daniel who constantly disagrees with me or snidely suggests my posts are incomprehensible, Eric seems to be a bit of a suck up. My theory is they are roommates who live in Atlanta, Georgia. (The IP resolves to Global Net Access, LLC in Atlanta GA.)
Here are messages caught by Akismet:
# Eric | [email protected] | submit-trackback.com | IP: 64.22.110.34
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Design Bloopers: More Content Loads Last : Big Bucks Blogger. Thanks for informative article
# Eric | [email protected] | submit-trackback.com | IP: 64.22.110.34
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title …..
# Daniel | [email protected] | blogging.allask.org | IP: 64.22.110.34
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding …
# Daniel | [email protected] | blogging.allask.org | IP: 64.22.110.34
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding lex: …
# Eric | [email protected] | submit-trackback.com | IP: 64.22.110.34
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title ….
Daniel | [email protected] | love.assistsell.net | IP: 65.98.35.234
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Love Update Testing: Please Leave Comments. : …
As usual, I had the option to rescue the “relevant” comments from the spam bin.
Advice to Eric and Dan:
But, I will be watching you two. If you get a new roommate, I’m going to know his name!
SEO Tip
Remember I promised an SEO tip? This is going to be an odd one! I’m going to show you that the a silly post “Daniel Spam” has good on page SEO!
Obviously, a post like “Daniel Spam’ is not mostly designed as SEO. I wrote it because I am obsessed with spam while writing my plugin.
That said: when I write any post I try to use practices that will ensure each article I write gets at least 1 tail search google hit within one month of writing the post.
Does one long tail hit the first month sound like a drop in the bucket? It is. But this goal is sufficient to force you to develop good on page SEO habits. If you embrace it, Google will love you in the long run.
So, how did I know I could get a 1 long tail hit within the first month? Here’s how I knew:
- Daniel is hitting everyone, but the first time he hits, he only leaves one comment.
- People aren’t sure Daniel’s comment is spam. So they search!
- Last but not least: I included the distinctive search-able strings in the post. The successful searcher entered both “Daniel” (not distinctive) and his email address (distinctive).
So, the SEO tip: What ever you write, look for “distinctive search-able strings” and include them.
What are “distinctive search-able strings”
They things people might search on that make a particular post stand out as relevant to the searcher.
There are actually three distinctive search-able strings in “Daniel Spam”: 1) The unique email address, 2) the IP address and 3) the constantly repeated words he uses in his spam comments.
Anyone entering those in a search is looking for information on our friend Danie’s spam!
Is it worth the bother?
You are now thinking: Look, I blog to make money. What’s 12 visits a year? Plus, are these visits valuable?
Will these people return to my blog? Will they link me? Will they click my ads?
Well, unlike Technorati traffic which each visitor has a high likelihood of being interested in my niche, and converting to readers or linkers, those searching for “Daniel Spam” will probably not return soon. They probably won’t click contextual ads.
So, from a profit point of view this is not a ‘quality’ visit.
But remember: The post is a no-brainer to write. I wanted to comment on the topic. Some readers were amused.
So, the only questions left are: “Should I add the small details that bring in search traffic? Or leave them out?” And more importantly, “If I can’t even bring in 1 long tail search hit a year, is it worth the 20 minutes to even write?”
Well, I’ll add the small details and take the search traffic any time!
Anyway, think about this: The fact the visitor found me means one more blogger now knows Daniel really is a spammer.
I think for most bloggers, knowing a post I had fun writing helped someone in some way is great!
My first most successfully (and accidental) link bate was like that. I got a silly virus warning and ranted about it (I’m sure you know the sort “if xyz adds you to their list don’t accept it because it will format the fridge and eat your cat…”) - I still get weekly traffic from people wanting to know what this is all about. I’m dead chuffed that I might have saved a good few people from getting silly messages.
Re searching -
The same thing applies with the 419 scams - there are sites that archive the emails so that if someone searches for the name of the scammer, their email address, their phone number, or even a line from their email, it will show up as a scam. This is useful to people.
I have 4 scam email blogs, where scam emails are posted automatically with mail2blogger and email addresses the scammers have been given and keep emailing. They average between 300-1000 hits a day. Most of those people are potential scam victims checking out emails by googling to find out what it means.
Snoskred
Doesn’t anyone do anything about this guy?
I have a collection of sites and most get 5-10 comments per day from that IP address but one has had over 3,000 this month!!!
Of course Akismet does it’s job but a search reveals that his crap does get published on a lot of other people’s blogs.
Actually, I just did the search with his email address to see how many sites he’s suckered. I don’t like Daniel much. He hates everything I write. I want his friend Eric to come by…
Anyway, searched on his email address and you were right at the top! Now to check out some of the other sites that let his comments through….