If you do SEO work for clients, you might want to think twice about that next Scrapebox blast...

I get a lot of spam comments on my sites, as I am sure many of you do too. However, I probably treat them differently than most webmasters. I do not just delete them right away. I look through them. All of them.

Some I use to identify new niches that will be easy to break into. I don't have to waste my time trying to brainstorm new niches. Other IM'ers have already done the work for me. If it is something I think might be worthwhile, I can dig into the niche and keywords a little more to confirm that. In many cases, I do not even need to track down an affiliate product to promote. That's already done too.

Here's the idea that is really making me some money though. I track down any comments that lead to a brick and mortar offline business. In most cases, this company is not doing their own SEO work. They hired someone to do it.

A great example would be one comment I found on Friday that led me to a real estate agent. I called him to ask him to stop leaving spammy, and in this case obviously inflammatory, comments on my site. He, as I suspected, knew nothing about it. He had hired someone to handle his online marketing. Exactly what I was looking for.

We had a nice long conversation about how these kind of spammy tactics can actually hurt his business and its reputation rather than help it. Long story short, I faxed over a contract to him that afternoon and had it back before the end of the day. Even though I charge four times as much as his other "online guy", he was more than happy to dump him and sign on with me.

This is now the third client in the last 4 months I have picked up this way.

If you are doing SEO work for clients, you might want to think twice before doing that next Scrapebox blast. You might be hitting one of my sites.