Spamming AIM?

Status
Not open for further replies.
R

Reefer420

New member
Oct 23, 2006
761
1
0
Every so often I get an IM from some random person about some porn site - is it legal to spam AIM with links?
 


well it depends on your definition of legal. In terms of AIM TOS, no, its not allowed. In terms of the law, I would have to say that it is legal, however extremely annoying. This is probably one of the worst ways to market because anyone receiving your ad will automatically ignore it instantly. If they take glimpse at the website you were advertising forget them ever visiting it, even if they see a legit ad.

Don't even bother, this is the lowest form of marketing and really isnt even that profitable, if at all.
 
wonderful5896 said:
well it depends on your definition of legal. In terms of AIM TOS, no, its not allowed. In terms of the law, I would have to say that it is legal, however extremely annoying. This is probably one of the worst ways to market because anyone receiving your ad will automatically ignore it instantly. If they take glimpse at the website you were advertising forget them ever visiting it, even if they see a legit ad.

Don't even bother, this is the lowest form of marketing and really isnt even that profitable, if at all.
Click to expand...

I strongly disagree with this. If you know how to spam AIM properly, the rewards can be great and can lead to high conversions such as 1:3. For example, at one point, I was running a website targetted towards teens, so I went to a teen forum running vBulletin, scanned the memberlist, grabbing as many AIM screennames as I could. The majority of them were still active, and after learning the best way to confront people on AIM so as not to seem a bot, I had members for my new website for free, and in good numbers.

Its all about the way you do things. If you randomly IM someone saying, "CHECK OUT THIS SITE!" you'll get blocked in 5 seconds. If you IM them with something just like "Hey", and then strike up a conversation, and then finally hit them with your CTRL + V message, you'll have a MUCH greater chance at getting them to respond.

Oh yeah, and its not illegal to spam AIM (back on topic).
 
SPAM laws are exclusive to email. AIM is not email, its not different than coming on these boards and spamming up advertisements, no laws are being broken, even though i'm sure the users didnt ask for the links.

Itn1dr: I was referring to the "CHECK OUT THIS SITE" stuff. I consider what you are doing to be more on the side of PR marketing rather than just brute force link marketing.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom