Eric & Daniel Spam (with SEO tip at the end!)

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:

Daniel | k.daniel@msn.com | 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 Lucia’s Linky Love.

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!

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