For everyone that is a Wordpress user, I’m sure you are well aware of Akismet, the plugin that filters out spam comments. You may think the best part of it is the fact that it prevents spam comments from getting in, well, I’d say it’s probably the beautiful keywords those spam comments deliver right to your doorsteps!
I used to overlook this all the time because who really likes spam? But since I’m a loser I care deeply for my visitors and commentators, I take extra time to go through my spam comments because typically there are a few real comments in there.
In my conquest to find those legit comments, I always see spam, spam, spam and I used to get blinded by that because it was annoying… until one day I just looked at some of the keywords and just did a quick check and they are some pretty good ones.
Besides all the porn type ones (there are some good keywords there too if you’re into that stuff), I found quite a few keywords that have some low competition and are searched for.
Let me give you an example.
I should have took a screenshot while it was in my Akismet filter but I accidentally deleted it. But one of the spam comments were just like 10-20 links with anchor texts. I saw random ones that would’ve been good but in the example I’m giving, a keyword I saw was “Rihanna haircut.”
Since Rihanna, the R+B singer, is pretty popular (especially since she’s all over the gossip and entertainment news currently for getting beat up by R+B singer Chris Brown), I figured this would be a good keyword to just look at.
What I did was just a typical Google search for “Rihanna haircut” and on my search engine it showed 585,000 search results so if I were to use it, I would probably have a good chance on making it to the first page.
(You can check out the screenshot below – click on the image to see it in full screen)
So now that we know that the competition isn’t too bad, let’s check if it’s actually being searched for.
In this example, I just did a quick check so all I did was go to Google Trends and typed in the keyword and if a chart appears, then at some point in time people were searching for it. If there is no chart, then that means there wasn’t enough information which also probably means not enough people were searching for it.
Based on the screenshot, people were and are still in fact searching for it.
Now you can take it a step further and check it in WordTracker or SEO Book keywords tool to find that specific keyword brings in about 60 searches daily. Of course, if you include the long-tail keywords then you’re probably looking at 100 searches daily.
So, now I have a decent enough keyword to potentially post about if I had an entertainment blog. You can also use this keyword for anything else but now you at least have it in your hands.
As I was going through all my spam comments, I noticed there was a lot of long tail keywords which if you looked it up based on what I mentioned above, you might not have the same results (with the graph and stuff).
Though, long tail keywords may often bring in more traffic so it may benefit you a little more to at least attempt to use it.
I’d just like to say Akismet is a lot more beneficial than just filtering out your spam comments. 
Feel free to check it out!
Wow buddy its amazing to know that what Akismet could do with spam comments filtration. I am thinking to use it for my blogging tasks. Thanks for info which a reader can get from your post.
You are so smart…(LOL). Seriously though, you found a way to talk about Rihanna and use the search terms by simply writing about the fact that you found it in your spam. Smart!!! So in essence, you’re still able to use those terms and benefit (even though you’re not an “entertainment” blog)…Gotcha!!!
-barbarabaker
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Wow, how you get these ideas! I am really impressed. BTW thanks for the adsense post password.
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Yea you are right. I am going to keep a close eye on my spam now. : ) maybe give me the keywords that will break my bank!!
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Wow thanks for sharing this. Can’t believe you actually made some effort into searching this.
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Great idea! I’ve never thought about that because mostly see porn comments. Although looks like it worth some time to see deeply in there.
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This is quiet a discovery. Never have I ever thought of it in the first place. I guess I should be more attentive too in the future.
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Excellent tip! I know I wake to plenty each morning which I sift for legit catches…now I’ll just sift a little slower.
Btw, clicking screenshots doesn’t make them full screen.
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How timely, this is something that I just started researching. I keep getting these spam comments with the 10 – 20 links and I too noticed the quality of the keywords… some good can come out of the bad.
Thanks for posting.
Karl
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That’s an idea!
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I didn’t know this, you may have stumbled onto the secret to making money online
, i will have a closer look in the future.
Every keyword suggestion is good. Having big traffic like you have gives you more ideas than both google insights and keyword suggestion tool :]
Akismet really helps to keep your comment section clean from spam. However I’m not sure if it’s worth the time unless your blog gets spammed big time.
So you’re saying the people that are spamming for backlinks have already done there researched and come to the conclusion that the keyword they’re spamming is a profitable keyword.
Good find!
Stan
So we will have to analyse the akismet spam comments before we delete any of those to get an idea of the keywords that might be useful. Save the time to do keyword research.
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Akismet is good thing, but saving comments we do MySQL-base bigger. KeyWords better analyse in SeoDigger and Google Hot Trends.
i agree that picture will bring us more traffic. Akismet also another good hint for us.
I like your idea and going to try this.
Akismet is a life saver. Absolutely mandatory when you run a high profile blog.
I love the angle of this article. I noticed a few fairly competitive keyphrases showing up in our comments section as well…which led me down a similar analytic path.
Great strategy…and a well articulated point!
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