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Ideas for Making Money: Monetize the Comment Spammers

March 26th, 2010 by Phil Stewart

I'm not the most prolific person in the world, but I have managed to set up dozens of websites over the years and there's one thing I've noticed: Comment spammers will find your new website almost instantly, chalking it full of spammy goodness.

This isn't really a new phenomenon, but something I've never paid much attention to until now.  These guys are much quicker than Google or any search spider when it comes to finding new websites.  I first noticed the trend a few days ago when a new site I set up had loads of comments pending my approval.  The new site hasn't been linked anywhere, hasn't been submitted to search engines, and only has a couple of posts yet the spammers found it anyway.  It's almost as if an open comment box calls to them, like Luke and the Force, or Homer and Donuts.

So here's my money making idea... these comment spammers are going to find your new website anyway, might as well try and make some money off them.  Why not charge the comment spammers to post?  Their comments never make it onto real websites anyway, but what if they could?  Offer them a real comment slot on a real website, for the low low price of $19.95.  But wait, there's more... act now and they get double the comments and a personalized email from the owner, thanking them for their time.

Ok, so maybe that's just an idea for an idea.  The truth is, the real comment spammers will never shell out money to anyone.  They can't even take the time to form a real sentence in their comment spam (let alone real words), so why would they take the time to pay for a comment?  They won't.  Their hope is that someone has been lazy and set comments for automatic approval.  While most website owners don't do this, a few do and the spammers make up for the ones who don't by sheer volume.

But it does open the idea of a money making website, based soley off of paying for comments, or links or what have you.  There are people who will pay for this, and they will take the time to post a complete (or semi-literate anyway) comment.

It could be something similar to that "Million Dollar Homepage" set up years ago that sold pixels for advertising.  Except this time you sell permanent text links, or permanent comments on prominent pages.  Do it right and it could be profitable.  Do it wrong and who cares?  It'd be fun either way and might offer some learnin' or insight or something.

While I'm rambling, Google should hire these comment spammers to find new sites for them.  Oh wait, who'd pay for that?  Better get Bing to hire them.

If you want more money making ideas, stay tuned, or don't.  You're probably better off coming up with your own.

Happy Tacos, or something.

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