Do Blog Spam Comments Actually Make Money?
Surprisingly, the answer is yes
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. To date, it has caught 18,963 spam comments. I wondered if Do Blog Spam Comments Actually Make Money?
In this article, we’ll cover:
- The History of Internet Spam
- The Scale of Spam
- Academic Research on Spam Profitability
- How Do Spammers Make Money from Blog Comments?
- How Do Spammers Post Millions of Spam Blog Comments?
- Examples of DevelopmentCorporate.com Blog Spam Comments
The History of Internet Spam
On 1 May 1978, Gary Thuerk, a go-getting marketing man employed by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) thought that it would be a good idea to let Arpanet researchers on the west coast know that DEC had successfully incorporated the network’s protocols directly into the company’s DEC-20 and TOPS-20 operating systems So Thuerk located a…
