Latest in blog advertising

I received the following message from “Patricia Lopez” of “Premium Link Ads”:

Hello,

I am interested in placing a text link on your page: http://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2011/07/super_sam_fuld/. The link would point to a page on a website that is relevant to your page and may be useful to your site visitors. We would be happy to compensate you for your time if it is something we are able to work out.

The best way to reach me is through a direct response to this email. This will help me get back to you about the right link request. Please let me know if you are interested, and if not thanks for your time. Thanks.

Usually I just ignore these, but after our recent discussion I decided to reply. I wrote:

How much do you pay?

But no answer. I wonder what’s going on? I mean, why bother sending the email in the first place if you’re not going to follow up?

5 thoughts on “Latest in blog advertising

  1. I have been getting emails proposing blog deals of various sorts. The emails seem to be automatically generated based on keywords from my blog. That is, there will be some superficial relation to my blog, but the email is not something that someone would write if he actually read my blog. I never got these emails before.

    In other words, it is a new and sophisticated spam. No one bothered to send you that email. If they have to respond manually, then they will only bother with the most likely suckers. That is what it looks like to me, anyway.

    • Roger:

      That makes sense. But what’s the point of sending the emails, automatically, if you don’t reply to the responders? Or did these people go out of business between the sending of the emails and my reply?

    • I don’t know. I have also gotten spam messages that serve no obvious purpose. That is, there is no pitch to buy anything and no link to click. Maybe it is some sort of test marketing.

  2. There may be a queuing problem:
    maybe they generated thousands of responses of people eager to add links to old blog posts.
    I can’t imagine the economics of this works if they keep enough people sitting around awaiting email so they can respond quickly.

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