April Fools day 2008 has officially started and this post will be updated for the next 36 hours with the latest pranks.
If you have created a prank or know a site that has just post in the comments and I will add it to the list with screenshots if possible.
For those of you looking for last minute ideas for a prank check out my guide here.
The best April Fools
Daily Blog Tips sold to Al
TechCrunch suing Facebook for $25 million
Matt Cutts moves to Performics
Search Engine Squaretable
Microsoft paying $1 million to searchers
Newkirk Nuggets – The World’s First Human In Vitro Meat
The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop
Google Calendar wake up calls
Twitter Budgie
Google Dream Ads
UFO spotted on Google Maps near Wales
Google Adwords changing to CPM
Google Watch
Google Virgle – moving to Mars
Problogger – Pay per tweet
Shakespeare Ghost Writer
TechCrunch buys teen magazine
Overclockers sponsored by Apple
Google Custom Time
Google Predicts the Future
Tim Ferriss outsourcing his blogging
John Chow cola drink
YouDigg
Betamax to HD-DVD converter
Mahalo interviews a fake Steve Jobs
eharmony founder finds love on match.com
dmoz goes German
Gordon Ramsay to stop swearing
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Leeds based digital & SEO agency Branded3. Patrick also runs Blogstorm.You can get our blog posts delivered for free by email every day - simply add your email address to the box below or alternatively grab the RSS feed.
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The first one I have seen on problogger.net
Looks like Darren Rowse got the ball rolling with this one as soon as the clock struck twelve in Australia.
Problogger Launches PayPerTweet
He’s already got loads of comments, ranging from the incredulous, to the dismissive, through to a number of people who’re disgusted that he would dare offer a service like this on their beloved Twitter, and quite a few who spotted the joke and called him on it straight away.
Just waiting to see what Shoemoney has lined up for this year.
Google has released its Google April Fool’s Search Engine found at http://www.googleaprilfools.com
Hopefully my software launch today doesn’t get lost in April Fools pranks
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I found this April fools post this morning:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/01/problogger-launches-paypertweet/
Tim Ferris of the Four Hour Workweek posted this prank claiming that he had been outsourcing all his blog writing for the last year.
Google Australia has released a search engine which predicts the future.
Link to Google Australia’s April Fools joke: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html
Here’s another one: http://www.bookofmoron.com/breaking-news-sex-scandal-derails-campaign-train
What about John Chow’s new John Chow Cola for bloggers, where he teamed up with Coca Cola? Haha.
An epistemology professor complains about Gmail’s Custom Time:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
I made one for 2 of my airsoft blogs that “airsoft has been banned totally in UK and Europe”. They have been written about in a few airsoft forums.
Links to the posts:
http://cheapassairsoftguns.com/airsoft-guns-to-be-totally-banned-across-uk-and-europe/
http://airsoftstoreonline.com/airsoft-to-be-banned-in-europe-and-uk/
Wonder if you can figure out what mine is? Check link in name.
YouTube has pulled a good one this year – go to youtube.com and click on any of the featured videos
It’s not in the make money online niche, but I put up an April Fools post in the other MMO niche (Massively Multiplayer Online games).
http://stroppsworld.com/2008/04/01/blizzard-buys-cryptic-star-trek-licence-confirmed/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/npenguin101.xml thought this one was quite good!
Guess I’m late to the party!
I posted one this morning:
http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog/2008/04/01/seo-firm-recommendation/
So far my two faves are from Tim Ferriss and Blog Commentator because they are right on the borderline of believable:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/03/31/the-grand-illusion-the-real-tim-ferriss-speaks/
http://www.blogcommentator.com/
Thanks for the list Patrick, I was looking for other examples!
Mine is: The Evil Genius Guide To Business
I liked this one:
http://www.wheretoadvertise.co.uk/website/2008/04/01/digg-to-buy-microsoft-as-shares-fall/
Prime Furniture Source, a retailer of modern furniture, has gone completely green.
Here is an excerpt from their press release:
“Miami, April 1, 2008 — Like most of you, we at Prime Furniture Source have been hearing a lot about this new “going green†phenomenon. At first we didn’t know what to make of it, but if it’s good enough for Al Gore, then who are we to argue?”
Happy April Fool´s, EVERYONE!
They don’t stop
March 2008 blog income report:
http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog/2008/04/01/march-2008-blog-income-report/
Happy April Fools Day
Learning SEO Basics on April Fools Day
http://learningseobasics.com/archives/357
Great list, I especially like the living on Mars one.
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