If you are a regular reader of this blog, then I’m sure you saw the keyword spam I wrote yesterday. I mainly did it for a test. This blog has always been a target of splog scraping blogs. I get content syndicated all the time and for the most part I ignore it. I know a lot of people complain about the practice of this all the time and while yes it is annoying and the spammers get a little of your content for free. At least that has been my experience, if they took the entire article then I would get perturbed, but for a sentence or two I’m not going to spend my time chasing them down, especially when they leave me a link.

Well lately the spammers have left me along and have not been grabbing my content at all. Then the other day when I posted my ten steps to better Adsense earnnings they jumped all over me. And when I say jumped my Askimet filter filled up. One tihng I noticed is some of the sites that linked to that post where not of the make money type splog. I had Weight Loss splogs, Golf Tip splogs and a host of others. Well it occurred to me, since they are going to do this anyway how can make them work for me. So I set down and started thinking of all the keywords I could think of and I wrote my keyword filled post. Well what do you think happened. They jumped all over me again.

From the two posts, I gained 32 backlinks to my blog, now these are not great links and I would be surprised if I every got a visitor because of them, but they did kick my technorati authority up three points and lowered my rank 6K spots. Now this is not something I would do a lot, but its interesting that a technique such as this could be used to trick the spammers into working a little for you. Afterall they are going to steal your content anyway, you might as well get a little something back.

***Update**** I need to do a little update to my figures above. Since they liked this post too, I’ve gained 9 more backlinks and Technorati jumped another 7 Authority points with another 8K jump in blog spot.  If I could get a couple of you readers to write  a post and link to this one, then I could break 100 in Authority now. Hint Hint

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