The Story Of A Self-Confessed Reformed Webspammer – with Todd Friesen
One day in the late 90s, Todd Friesen put up a quick web site to sell pills. “In the very first month,” he told me “I made $150. And I thought this is just silly.” But things changed quickly. “The second month Google picked it up and I got into the top three for some of the big keywords and made several thousand dollars. At that point my eyes got opened really wide and I started building web sites as fast as I could.” Then he posted thousands of spammy comments on other people’s blogs, bought links and pumped up his traffic and sales.
This is the story of how he pulled in up to tens of thousands of dollars a month through web (but not email) spam.
Today Todd is reformed and does legitimate search engine optimization, so I also asked him to teach us what it takes to get traffic today.
Todd Friesens‘s bio, via his web site: I’ve been online doing SEO since about 1998 and I am currently the VP of Search at Position Technologies. It’s a great gig.
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