Interested in purchasing text link advertisement ??
I’ve received suspicious email to advertise something on my blog. Based on the email above, I have bad feeling that it is generated email by ’someone’.
I don’t know why the highlighted sentence above caught my attention. I then google for keywords “Hi,I am interested in purchasing text link advertising at some specific pages” . And then, it comes across that some guys already face the same situation like me. 
http://thiseclecticlife.com/2008/01/08/too-good-to-be-true/
http://blogbitesman.net/2007/12/20/just-saying-no-to-link-spam/
Thanks guys.
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I too received the EXACT same email and was interested to see what kind of ads he would come up with. After all, what could it hurt? When the ads came back having nothing to do with the content of my post, I asked him to re-write. I eventually rejected the offer because of too many “flags.”
Two things here:
1. In corresponding with the person, they inadvertently signed a different name in one of the emails, leaving me to wonder who am I REALLY dealing with?
2. In attempting to search for an identity, I’ve yet to find anything about the person (apart from multiple posts reporting the same offer), leaving me to wonder .. will this linking strategy end up associating my site with a site related to porn, gambling, or something else completely inappropriate to my site AND reputation?
I don’t care what your definition of “spam” is, if you don’t know the dealer, you’re asking for trouble. Responsible blogging can be a double-edged sword: provide valuable content … including your links.
If you’re willing to take money from a stranger for admittedly low-level link association (my blog isn’t exactly #1 either) … you’ve just been pimped! (excuse the analogy, but I feel violated)