I used to do bunches of spamming because it worked. I would do it publicly, even on the 45n5.com domain. However I don’t spam anymore. Aside from an occasional “gray hat” experiment, and even those are becoming rare.

Most of it works. Typo spamming, keyword stuffing, social network spamming, video spamming, google spamming, parasite seo, link spamming. It ALL works.

However, even though it works, I don’t do it anymore and don’t recommend it. I still have a few spam pages laying around, waiting to get deindexed or removed from their social sites, but don’t actively build them anymore and haven’t for awhile.

Spend Your Time Where It Matters Most

So what, you can make a few bucks by typo stuffing squidoo pages, and you CAN. But,

The odds of those pages still making you money in one year is slim. It’s also a poor excuse for building a business that will continue to feed yourself into the future.

Take if from me, I’ve been there and done that. It’s a constant battle and the energy could be MUCH better spent elsewhere.

Spam Works, But It Takes Work

Instead of spending your time and energy building spam that will probably disappear in a month, why not spend the time building useful things that people value and want to tell like minded friends that will value it also?

That is how I’m trying to build things from now on. Sure, it’s not as “cool” as showing you some trick about parasite seo that will make you a few dollars for a week, however it IS the way I’m trying to create things moving forward.

and:

Why are you spending an entire weekend creating junk content or useless affiliate sites hoping to rank in google to earn your riches?

Is that really the online “business” you were hoping for?

Creating Value Is More Than A Catch Phrase

If I build a business out of ShowYourAdHere.com and similar sites that is VALUABLE. If I build a business with a bunch of web spam, that has little to no value or at the least some very risky value.

In addition if you aren’t really adding “value” you will be continually trying to stay ahead of the curve of people deleting your nonsense and google deindexing your sites and your credibility might suffer.

Why 45n5 doesn’t spam anymore

I think there are much higher returns to be had from building valuable things on the internet than spamming.

Sure spamming works, let’s be honest, just look at youtube/google/squidoo/myspace or anywhere to find spam. If it didn’t make people money it wouldn’t be there.

However it’s a short term, very volatile game with diminishing returns unless you constantly spend your time working real hard creating more spam.

And if you are going to spend all day creating spam, why not spend it creating something that is worth something?

Aside: Funny, I spend an hour every day making my videos with original content. I don’t consider them spam in the least. They are me shooting the breeze about making websites and money online. They are commercial free and released under creative commons. Still though, I was accused of being an “affiliate link spammer” today. Can’t win them all.