Blog Spam = Blog Success?

If the amount of com­ment spam a blog receives equates to the pop­u­lar­ity and suc­cess of a blog, I Am Pariah is pretty successful.

This blog ranks very high on Google for a num­ber of pop­u­lar search terms, as it also does on Technorati, Bloglines, and other places. In some way, this indi­cates the suc­cess of a blog, if page rank is one’s motivation.

More than 300 blogs and sites–including the New York Times print and online edition–mention and link to the Memes List, one of the projects of this site. This too is an indi­ca­tor of suc­cess, if links are one’s motivation.

Google AdSense pulls well enough on this site that all my host­ing expenses–on all my domains–are com­fort­ably cov­ered. So, that could be con­strued as sucess, if money is one’s motivation.

Since imple­ment­ing anti-comment spam fea­tures that pre­vent such things from appear­ing on this site, but deliver it to loca­tion where I can peruse it, the quan­tity of com­ment spam (attempted) has exceeded 340 mes­sages per day–and it grows at an aston­ish­ing rate of 10% per week. I won­der: Is this too an indi­ca­tor of success?

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