While sending some blogging related Gmails today I spotted the worst Adsense ad I’ve ever seen.
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 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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Wow, I wish I owned example.com! Imagine the type-in traffic..
LOL example.com has over 660,000 incoming links.
Yeah I`ve seen that one for a while floating around. Absolutely wasting that money. Must be down £500 by now…
LOL, well i’m not surprised … probably some puchy indian got his hands on some adwords voucher …
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.
The target url and the display url were both wrong, I clicked on it.
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