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It seems either I reached enough traffic to be noticed, or the newest craze in Internet marketing is blog spam. I'm getting multiple posts per day of either quotes from books, generic comments, or just links from everything from acne and hemorrhoid creams to chat smilies and electric toothbrushes. It is irritating to have the activity. It messes with the stats of traffic to the site, it takes time to delete them or report them, and... well, it just sucks. A blogger wants to inform people and have relevant conversations. When you start out, you anxiously wait to see if anyone is reading or will comment. When you get a comment, it is very exciting. Then, then along comes the spam.

Not much to be done about it. It's as bad as telemarketers, junk mail, spam email, and fliers left on your car or your front door. I sometimes think America has become the economy based on advertising. Our news, magazines, radio, television and even the Internet are essentially supported by advertising revenue. Without ad revenue, most of these products wouldn't exist, or they'd be really expensive. But, how much money is actually wasted on advertising?

To give you a guess at what is spent, trying to get your attention, take a look at this site.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/u-s-internet-ad-revenues-decline-5-3-in-first-half-2009/

$10,900,000,000 spent (that's 10.9 BILLION, if you didn't want to count the zero's). And that number is down 5.3% from previous numbers! And, that number is only for 1/2 of a year. So, basically, just Internet advertising is over a $20 Billion industry.

That's a lot of money spent on spam and banner ads that I ignore and automatically delete.