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After deciding to get some traffic to my site soon, I posted a thread on the Webmaster-Talk forums.

Below is post:

I am looking to buy advertising space related to web hosting. I don’t want to buy this space where lots of other web hosts are also advertising though - your site can have Adsense and things, but preferably not banners or multiple text links. I’m willing to pay approximately £20-£30 ($40-$60) per month for the space.

If you own a web site which is related to hosting and has a reasonable amount of traffic, please PM me. I don’t want PM spam or link exchanges.

Lone behold, what do I get? PM spam about link exchanges from a lonely spammer:

Hi

I want to do quality pr3 reciprocal link exchange.
I have a pr3 website, and I can add your web page on my site (< Junk Removed >) on one of pr3 pages. All pages are indexed by Google and they have less than 50 links.

I respect this criteria

Use and ask for text reciprocal link;
Don’t accept pornography, discrimination, violence or illegal activities website;
The partner website must be completed and indexed by Google;
The page of reciprocal link or link directory must be indexed and reachable by main page;
Search for direct reciprocal links, not redirected links;
The partner website must not use NoFollow attribute;
The partner website must not use NoCache attribute;
The partner website must not use frames/iframes;

If you are interested please add this code

< Junk Removed >
… and send me a message and tell me where my link is added. I will do the same for you immediately Less than 24 hours

P.S. Send me your link

JL

My reply no. 1:

Leave me alone. I specifically said I DO NOT WANT LINK EXCHANGE.

GO AWAY SPAMMER

GET A REAL JOB

Why do spammers never listen or read? Grrrr…..

His reply to me no. 1:

Sorry!
I don’t see that you didn’t want link exchange. So I live you alone and for you seak calm down it’s not good for you.

Wow - a spammer that actually understands English and has a sense of humour - well closer to a sense of humour than the average spambot.

My reply no. 2:

Where did you find my offer and why did you think it was about link exchange? What is the address of the post or the thread?

Of course, in the typical spammer way, nothing is what it seems - his reply no. 2:

Because when I was checked title of messages where you answered, I saw it was talking about link exchange. So, very simple.

So I answered your question.

Now I saw all your answers and I am thinking you’re a jerk. Don’t border me, I am living you alone and I don’t want talk to you anymore.

Well considering the title of my thread was about buying advertising for hosting, I don’t think link exchange entered the equation. And “living me alone” - nope I’m not living alone. Maybe it’s just a self-pitiful spammer.

My reply no. 3:

Thanks for everything. You’ve given me some nice content for my blog

After this, he got bitter:

So, I’m happy if I can help you.
Tant mieux si ça peut d’aider, je suis content pour toi.

This translated to: “So much the better if this can help, I am happy for you.”.

Rather than prolonging this, I gave him the URL of this post. Hope he posts soon

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