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9:15 pm
June 21, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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I've started to get a lot of SPAM comments recently from businesses just looking for links.
Has any one tried/had success emailing them at the email address provided in the comment field to say that you couldn't approve their comment but to see if they would be interested in advertising?
Just was curious if I am wasting my time doing this….haha
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9:44 pm
June 21, 2011
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Jacob – I've never tried that or even though of that. However, that's really good thinking – very cool. Maybe you should think about marketing as opposed to what you might be otherwise studying at the moment:)
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10:23 pm
June 21, 2011
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I have got 2 good leads so far, but these folks tend to be in the lowest scale of low ballers. Last week I was offered $5 for a sidebar link :) def. worth an email…
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11:22 pm
June 21, 2011
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I don't think it's worth it unless you are pricing links really cheaply.
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4:05 am
June 22, 2011
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Most likely, spammers won't be willing to pay much for a link. That's why they spam instead of dealing directly with a site. I guess it doesn't hurt to try though.
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4:38 am
June 22, 2011
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Honestly, with the volume of spam out there I think you can find much better ways to work on monetiztion.
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6:06 am
June 22, 2011
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Thanks for everyone's input. Very interesting. I think I'll just give it a try….Being in graduate school, my time is only worth about $1 per hour anyway! haha
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6:14 am
June 22, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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I was trying to do this, thought I had a really good lead (about $500) but after wasting a bunch of time explaining things the advertiser finally looked at our metrics (I assume) and said our traffic and PR were too low – not interested. But asked (again) if I owned other sites (had already said no) – specifically one with 135,000 subscribers. "We may be interested in that site". Uh huh. Delete.
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8:04 am
June 22, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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I think this is a great idea but I do have concerns about the time investment vs the payment received. Usually these are low ballers and can't pay much. It might still be worth a try though.
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9:39 am
June 22, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
I have got 2 good leads so far, but these folks tend to be in the lowest scale of low ballers. Last week I was offered $5 for a sidebar link :) def. worth an email…
Ha! That beats an offer I got yesterday: A paid post & link for $150 for 12 months. Not gonna happen when other advertisers are offering 4X that!
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9:56 am
June 22, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
I have got 2 good leads so far, but these folks tend to be in the lowest scale of low ballers. Last week I was offered $5 for a sidebar link :) def. worth an email…
What I meant is – create a standard template email. Just send that to those folks, takes 2 mins. So it is worth an email, but not worth more than 2 mins of your time…
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10:02 am
June 22, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
I have got 2 good leads so far, but these folks tend to be in the lowest scale of low ballers. Last week I was offered $5 for a sidebar link :) def. worth an email…
What I meant is – create a standard template email. Just send that to those folks, takes 2 mins. So it is worth an email, but not worth more than 2 mins of your time…
That's what I do. I send out the same form mail to everyone who links to a business site when leaving a comment.
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10:40 am
June 22, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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Here's a template for the email I copy/paste to all of them. Let me know what you all think and feel free to use it if you like.
Hi ShareTipsLive,
I was unable to approve your comment because it is to a business
looking for links.
However, would you be interested in advertising on my site? If
so, we can discuss the details.
Thanks,
Jacob
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12:31 pm
June 22, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey said:
Here's a template for the email I copy/paste to all of them. Let me know what you all think and feel free to use it if you like.
Hi ShareTipsLive,
I was unable to approve your comment because it is to a business
looking for links.
However, would you be interested in advertising on my site? If
so, we can discuss the details.
Thanks,
Jacob
Certainly I can't do that for some one whose links refers to hot asian girls 
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12:40 pm
June 22, 2011
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Sigh….I don't even get the spam comments
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3:40 pm
June 22, 2011
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Miss T said:
I think this is a great idea but I do have concerns about the time investment vs the payment received. Usually these are low ballers and can't pay much. It might still be worth a try though.
I agree with Miss T. The time investment is not worth the potential reward because spammers are not likely to pay much for a link.
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4:32 pm
June 22, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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OneCentAtatime said:
My Personal Finance Journey said:
Here's a template for the email I copy/paste to all of them. Let me know what you all think and feel free to use it if you like.
Hi ShareTipsLive,
I was unable to approve your comment because it is to a business
looking for links.
However, would you be interested in advertising on my site? If
so, we can discuss the details.
Thanks,
Jacob
Certainly I can't do that for some one whose links refers to hot asian girls
Hehehehe!
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4:47 pm
June 22, 2011
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I'd be interested to see if you got anywhere with this. Some crazy commodity guy just tried to leave 10 comments on my site!
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4:51 pm
June 22, 2011
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I am not using Akismet, so a lot of cofee break time is getting lost while deleting spams, even during conf calls too, people watching me playing with iPhone, I think my job will be at stake because of the spams
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4:59 pm
June 22, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Invest It Wisely said:
I'd be interested to see if you got anywhere with this. Some crazy commodity guy just tried to leave 10 comments on my site!
Kevin, try an email like what Jacob had. Here is my template -
Hello Crazy-commodity-guy
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Unfortunately, I have a policy of not allowing business links in the comments section. I will leave the comment as it is, without link. If you would like to have a link on my website, either within the post or on the sidebar, I will be happy to discuss the rates with you. Broke Professionals has a moz rank of 4.2, Alexa 150000 and gets over 15000 page view a month. I am sure it will be a mutually beneficial relationship. Let me know if you are interested.
Thanks,
Suba
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