Spam Works! No Kidding!
 

Another NY Times story. Readers here are ReveNews know this, but the numbers are still interesting.

Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam. The third most successful variety is spam advertising Rolex watches, 0.0075 percent of which get clicked on, according to an analysis by CipherTrust, a large manufacturer of devices that protect networks from spam and viruses...

http://www.revenews.com/news/2006/07...o_kidding.html

Great site. Make sure you bookmark it

biiiizzzoooooooo

well duh, there must be a reason they keep doing it.

Quawee, great find. Bookmarked

7500 clicks per delivered mil.

a decent spammer right now needs to mail some 25mil+ to deliver 1mil

the next generation of spammers prosecutions will be targeted to trailer park residents.

pffft

says a failed spammer

pffft

said an anonymous

I get so much spam for porn but I dont know how they get away with it. A complain to the host, the affiliate program being advertised or whatever will shut them down.

interesting...

theres no money in spam

I'll stick to spamming SEs thanks!

Spam Sucks

Great use of your time!

booom boom!!!

spam is bad mmmkay! not ;)

if done right, and ethical...

Still a rookie I see.

^^^ haha take it easy, the kid is still on 28.8kbps

people who waste their time reporting spammers = surfers not webmasters

same with people that try and out blackhat SEOs

spam always sells :thumbsup