Worlds Worst Adsense Ad

by Patrick Altoft on / no responses

While sending some blogging related Gmails today I spotted the worst Adsense ad I’ve ever seen.

Worst PPC ad

No, not the top one, I’m talking about the “SEO optimisation” one. Initially my thoughts were “Wow, I can’t believe somebody has such a cool domain as example.com” but if you visit example.com you can see this isn’t the case at all.

How much do you think this SEO consultant is spending on PPC traffic to a non-existent site? Lets hope it was only a temporary issue.

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.

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September 10, 2007 at 8:05pm

Wow, I wish I owned example.com! Imagine the type-in traffic..

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September 10, 2007 at 8:40pm

LOL example.com has over 660,000 incoming links. Smile

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September 10, 2007 at 11:55pm

Yeah I`ve seen that one for a while floating around. Absolutely wasting that money. Must be down £500 by now…

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Vlad
September 11, 2007 at 12:37am

LOL, well i’m not surprised … probably some puchy indian got his hands on some adwords voucher …

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September 11, 2007 at 6:05am

He could of just used example.com as a display URL. Are you sure that when you click on the ad you arn’t taken to his actual website?

Google generally disables an Ad if it generates a 404 in this case however it would not, but it stands to reason that an Adwords reviewer would pull the ad if it didn’t meet guidelines.

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September 11, 2007 at 10:44pm

The target url and the display url were both wrong, I clicked on it.

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