Will posting spam emails hurt us?

[candyaddict]

We are getting some very funny spam emails sent to Teenormous - specifically about t-shirts, not general spam. We were thinking it would be funny to post them on our Teenormous blog (with links and names removed of course).

Would this hurt us? Would google think we were spammers and look unfavorably on us? Seems like it's a good idea cause they are funny and readers/users would get a kick out of it but if it will cause anything negative from search engines, we won't do it.

We thought about instead creating a separate site/blog for them.

Ideas? Thoughts?

[candyaddict]

Bueller? Bueller?

[hart]

I personally try to take every opportunity to make fun of people who spam, steal, cheat and put me at risk (e.g. clicking on my ads) ... this way - it is always open in public my reaction towards that - which is disapproval of course!

I personally think it would be okay - in a moral sense - but keep it in the blog, and not on the teenormous site itself. I wouldn't bother creating a new blog - unless you wanted to for other reasons. Maybe instead of posting something everytime you receive spam you can just keep it as a regular feature - once a week, or once a month etc.

[candyaddict]

We were thinking in the TN blog, not the actual site. And the only reason we were thinking of doing it on another site was if putting spam email on our TN blog would hurt us (which nobody addressed that - not sure if nobody cares or nobody knows )

[davidcubed]

Have you gone ahead and done this? If so, can I read it. If not, why did you decide not to? Was it time or SEO stuff?

[candyaddict]

Have you gone ahead and done this? If so, can I read it. If not, why did you decide not to? Was it time or SEO stuff?

We get loads of freakin hilarious relevant, t-shirt spam but we just didn't think it was worth the risk to post it on our blog. Our blog http://blog.teenormous.com/ is PR4 and we don't want to do anything to make google mad

[davidcubed]

Have you thought about making spamfun.teenormous.com with a blog that is no-indexed by search engines, and has all links to it no-follow. It could be a fun read that would help market/brand your site, and not hurt your search engine rankings.

[candyaddict]

Have you thought about making spamfun.teenormous.com with a blog that is no-indexed by search engines, and has all links to it no-follow. It could be a fun read that would help market/brand your site, and not hurt your search engine rankings.

That's a good idea. We had thought of maybe even starting a separate domain for it and maybe even get other tee sites/sops to post theirs too. Right now though, this is really low priority - we have lots of more important things to accomplish Someday though.

[rdash]

No-indexed doesnt' actually stop all engines from indexing. Don't know enough about this to know if some browsers will slap a "potentially dangerous site" label on your main domain. Maybe on your your spam subdomain. Again, not sure, which is why I never started the spam email website I'd considered a couple of years ago.

[candyaddict]

No-indexed doesnt' actually stop all engines from indexing. Don't know enough about this to know if some browsers will slap a "potentially dangerous site" label on your main domain. Maybe on your your spam subdomain. Again, not sure, which is why I never started the spam email website I'd considered a couple of years ago.

Yep - and that's one of the reasons we haven't done it - not worth the risk