Everyone who has an email account or surfs the web is aware of the wasted time and loss of productivity caused by SPAM. Spam email is unsolicited bulk email (UBE). The senders of these spam emails usually rack up a small fee for each person who clicks on the link in the email, or makes a purchase on the advertised website. If you so much as click on a link in a spam email, or worse yet, purchase something through a spam email, you are ensuring the survival of this kind of advertising. If you want to stop rather than encourage it, you must never click on a link in a spam email, even if it is a product or service you are interested in. Because spamming is generally seen as an unethical practice in the business community, there is a good chance that any businesses you get involved in through spam will be unethical in other ways, and it is best to stay away. If the business being promoted is a major company, let them know directly that you do not appreciate the spam you receive on their behalf from the 3rd party advertiser.

Emails used by spammers are often "harvested" by robots (software programs) from the Internet. If you post your email address on a website, encrypt it using JavaScript or some other method that makes it unreadable to a robot looking for email addresses. If you do post your email address on a website, and do not encrypt it, expect that it will be harvested, added to a spammers list, and you will be receiving a good amount of spam because of it.

SPAM websites are similar to Spam emails in that they are usually put up by a 3rd party to advertise another business' products or services. These websites contain no useful content themselves, only "affiliate links" for which the website owner is paid per click or per purchase. If you do a search, click on a result, but the page does not have any useful information, hit the back button rather than clicking the "sponsored link." These sponsored links are often made to look like standard links or navigation to trick you into clicking on them. If the page has no content, hit the back button and look for another result. 

This is not to say that the appearance of sponsored links indicates that the page is spam, but if there is no useful information on the page, don't reward the website owner financially by clicking on a sponsored link. Digging through these spam results can be a big waste of time and you might even consider reporting the spam result to the search engine you used to find it. Search engines have staff that will review the report, and if the page does violate the search engines terms of inclusion, they will delete it from the results.

Spamming can be financially rewarding, or it wouldn't be so prevalent. It is unlikely spam will ever be eliminated, but you can help reduce it by not clicking. 

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Jack Payne - Con Man's Blog     | 98.208.14.xxx | 2008-12-16 23:06:04 There is so much malarky surrounding the launching of a web site it's sickening. Not the least of which is the overwhelming influence of spammers. Reply | Quote 1   0

web design miami     | 95.108.47.xxx | 2009-02-26 02:43:18 The problem with this is that most people who click on those links especialy in email spam are bad with computer. They have no idea what they're doing and they'll probably never get a chance to read this useful article. Reply | Quote 0   0

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