Smithsonian

Do Blog Spam Comments Actually Make Money?

Surprisingly, the answer is yes

6 min readMar 14, 2022

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I have been blogging since 2008. My blog, developmentcorporrate.com, is a modest success. It gets about 50,000 visits a year. I have several articles that rank on page 1 of Google. I have always been curious why I get so many spam comments. My blog is a WordPress site and I use the Akismet plugin to automatically quarantine spam comments…

John Mecke

Written by John Mecke

John has over 25 years of experience in leading product management and corporate development organizations for enterprise firms.

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