Yesterday I was looking through the subject lines in my inbox and I gave a thought to look up the keywords on overture. You can find a great utility to look up keyword prices and similar keywords at http://www.pixelfast.com/overture/
Anyway the three I looked up were:
Hair Loss
Lose Weight
and
Debt Consolidation
To my surprise lose weight was the lowest at $1.87, the hair loss at $6.09 a click. Judging by the number of debt consolidation and refinancing spam messages I get it did not surprise me that debt consolidation was $10.00 per click.
This goes back to the point that the only real way to stop spam is to remove the profit from it. If a spammer can make $5.00 per click (most services pay out about 50%) then the only way to stop them is to 1) don’t click on their links, 2) report them to the company that they are using to make money and 3) gets laws in place that allow everyone to sue spammers in civil court.
If everyone where to dedicate effort into making that happen spam would come under control pretty quickly.
