If you have an average popular blog, you will start receiveing mails where people will offer you money to link their website and product. And if you don't want to sell links on your blog it is quite difficult to get rid of these people because they are really insistent. Ignoring the mails won't help (they will resend them), answering in a polite way like 'No sorry, I don't do that' won't help and insulting them doesn't help either I've been told (although I haven't tried yet). Telling them that they could use google adsense to advertise on irrlicht3d.org won't help as well, because adsense is JavaScript based and they usually only want to lift their page rank.
But recently, I read an article where somebody found a quite simple way out: Accepting the offer, but demanding an above-average amount of money. My result:
Have you gone crazy?..2000$ per month..Not intersted
-----Original Message-----
From: Nikolaus Gebhardt [mailto:niko ät irrlicht3d.org]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 9:31 AM
To: scrubbed
Subject: Re: Request For Paid Links and Ads
Hi,
That link, for six months, on every page of the blog at http://www.irrlicht3d.org, would be 6000 euro.
Best Regards, |
Yay :)