Seriously, it does.
A lot of spammers have been targeting TUK over the last couple of weeks… whereas before, I used to get maximum of ten spammy comments a day, nowadays I’m lucky if I get less than twenty spam comments an hour. A lot of them relating to various male and female body size deficiencies. 
How much spam do you get daily on your Wordpress blog?
Another place I get a truckload of spam is through email… again, before I used to get one spam email daily, nowadays it’s more like thirty daily. Luckily due to Akismet and Gmail’s sweet spam filter, none of them get through apart from the odd “YOU JUST WON $1,000,000 IN THE LOTTERY” emails. Oh, and the ones saying that a certain Nigerian king just died and his wife will send me a few hundred million dollars if I help them move the funds 
Making Money With Spam
No, fool – I don’t mean spamming people.
If you get a lot of spam comments, take a look at the anchor text they use – they’re often specially chosen for a reason. Very rarely will you find one word anchor text used for spam comments; it’ll often be a few keywords, that is long tail ones.
Next time you check your Akismet filter, take a look at all the anchor text used, and paste them into a Notepad file. You should get around 20 – 30 variations.
What you do next is take those keywords, and try them out in SEOBook’s keyword tool. Using this, I’ve found keywords searched for upwards of 3,000 times monthly (100 daily) with less than a few thousand Google search results. Ripe for picking? You betcha.
Of course, before you start building a niche website for your phrase, make sure you run it (or a variation of it, at least) through Spyfu to check what people are paying. Even if you get a low $ number, or nothing at all, you might want to look into it – a lot of search engine traffic to a well optimized page generally leads to decent profits.
Just one of the things I stumbled across while I was a little bored – will it make money? No idea. We’ll see, and I’ll update here if it does. However, I’ve always wanted to find some highly searched keywords with little to no competition (especially when the bulk of the websites you are competing with are splogs – easy to outrank) and build niche websites targeting them, so this is a way to start. Make sure you check out your keywords to see if you find anything – this doesn’t work for the email spam you get, but you’ll find a few gems in your Wordpress spam. Don’t target the same ones I am 
If anyone of you want to take this further and have success with it, the domain MAKEMONEYWITHSPAM.COM is available… the potential is there for a website (and a TV show – would beat the Apprentice, at least). Now make sure you register it before I do 
Anyways, I’m going to stop mentioning spam in this post because if I talk too much about spam I’ll get spammy comments from spam blogs. Oops! Enjoy the short read.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Lol, looks like someone took the domain, would like to see what’s done with it!
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May 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Wow you have done so much research on spam. Well have you ever tried spamming?
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May 26th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Haha, not a bad idea… I never considered checking the anchored terms in an SEO router to use yourself. Could prove to be an interesting skill
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May 26th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Jason- I blogged about this topic as well! People called me nuts, but you can learn some interesting things from the spam that gets through to you. I hope you don’t mind some blatant advertising… or should it be spamvertising???
http://www.oibo.org/spamalicious-spam-hits-the-big-three-ohhhh.html
http://www.oibo.org/do-you-know-spam-yes-hes-my-friend.html
The second link contains a link to the original article that kicked it off…
Oh yah… great post!
Mo
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May 26th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I don’t get any spam on my new blog yet
or maybe just not indexed yet.
haha, mustn’t be popular enough
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May 26th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I haven’t gotten spam on my newest blog but I have gotten it on my other blogs that have PR
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:27 am
wow. I never thought of that. Thanks jason. Now. time to check akismet!
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May 27th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Ha ha that something hilarious and something serious too
Making money from Spam is something different!
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May 27th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Nice job thinking outside the box. Most people just get annoyed by spam and have probably never thought of monetizing it this way. Good ideas and great links!
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May 27th, 2008 at 8:18 am
First I was fighting with spam manually. Then I tried SK2 plugin and now only few spam insurance messages past by.
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May 27th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
This is a great thinking outside the box idea, and could be useful in keyword research if you have time to kill.
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May 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I don’t completely agree with you, but still: welcome to the club. I get 4400 spam messages per day in my 2 biggest blogs
/Andreas
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May 29th, 2008 at 3:05 am
I get spam, sex spam. Also a lot of airline ticket spam. So loads of airline ticket and sex spam.
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May 29th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I think this would be a good name: The Spamillionare
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May 29th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Really Rajeie? You rich in spam? I wish you could sell it. I have had like 100 this month.
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May 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Ha, I love this idea. Now that’s creativity. Take the spammers and turn the tables on them.
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May 31st, 2008 at 12:09 am
haha, this article had me cracking up in the beginning, because I was thinking ” Man, I get lots of spam like this!” The kind of spam where a long lost rich relative is offering you lots of money especially cracks me up
whats awful though is that some people do fall for them 
. But this is also great advice, and very creative.
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August 11th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Thats a really gud idea.didnt know spam cud help.now thats thinking positive is all about.hehehehehe.keep up the gud work
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January 10th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Jason,
This post was awesome. I have never taken a class in anything related to online marketing. I watch what everyone else (yes, including spammers do), and then I try to understand it, replicate it, and improve upon it.
Jake
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