[notgood]

>Advertisers will likely bid more for ads on high quality websites

Citation needed

> Advertisers will also bid more for people willing to buy stuff.

Unfortunately, there is no correlation between people willing to buy stuff and high quality content.

[eli]

We don't typically sell them this way, but the CPM for an ad on e.g. retaildive.com is much higher than anything on Google's network.

> Unfortunately, there is no correlation between people willing to buy stuff and high quality content.

Citation needed :)

[notgood]

Do I really need a citation to prove dumb people have money? Because that's basically what you are asking. Or perhaps you believe that when people click an ad on "low-quality" site the are less likely to buy than from the same ad on "high-quality" site?

Seriously, the "enlargement penis" spam works because the average person is not that selective on the ads they chose nor the websites they visit.

[Noseshine]

> the "enlargement penis" spam works because the average person is not that selective on the ads they chose nor the websites they visit

I don't think you understand "average". It's the extreme tail of the distribution that is targeted by such ads.

Example:

> Nigerian scam emails 'deliberately implausible'

> New research from Microsoft suggests that email scammers maximise profits by entrapping only the most gullible.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9346371/Nige...