Spam is a....Good Thing!

"Spam" the internet's most hated word. For new internet users its a huge scam. For more experienced users its complete annoyance. So why in the world did I say that Spam is a good thing? because spam, when done tactfully can be a huge traffic booster.

You might not know this but I got more than 50% of my blog traffic from spamming alone. But I didn't go around forums spamming every thread and getting a ban helplessly. In fact Spamming forums does not work at all. What I did was I found some video sharing sites, and made a comment only regarding the video itself, and then under that I put my site URL as a signature. A few weeks ago I made a post on how to market from youtube, and I never mentioned spamming as a technique. Thats because spamming youtube is old school and youtube does not allow URL's in its comments. Also Making a video is much better to get traffic from youtube rather than spamming.

My traffic nearly doubled since the comments and now I've got adsense traffic as well. Don't make me wrong I'm in no way encouraging spam In fact I don't call it spam at all ( Spam 2.0 sounds nice eh?), I'm just talking about a technique on how to Spam effectively and without annoying others.

Another easy method I use is E-Mail Spamming, hey dont get me wrong again, I'm not talking about sendig mass E-Mails to dozens of people every hour. Instead I send it to a handful of people, Via my E-Mail Client Gmail ( through Bcc) on a monthly basis. It can be time consuming to you to paste each E-Mail address on the text-box but hey, It does never ends up in Bulk.

The internet was a free world ( until all the big company's came in that is) and it is meant to be free so use every free opportunity for site promotion.