Category: Humor, Marketing

Be Careful what you Advertise

Yes, Google Adsense can make you a lot of money but at the same time it can hurt you. Notice anything wrong with this photo?



Solution: Go to Google and filter out your competitor list…

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16 Responses to “Be Careful what you Advertise”

  • Chris
    May 15th, 2008
    7:17 am

    Red Hot Pwned!

    That was too easy to pass up.

  • Peter Cooper
    May 15th, 2008
    8:40 am

    The very day that Google launched “Site Targeting” I went straight on to it and advertised my business on competitors’ sites in the same way! It was funny for a couple of days but ultimately the ads didn’t perform (and it seemed a bit silly anyway) so I pulled them off.

    It was very interesting at the time though, because Google didn’t make much noise about the feature to start with, so I might even have been the first to give it a go!

    I don’t see these targeted site ads very often on Adsense blogs at all nowadays. I wonder why that is.

  • Yuval
    May 15th, 2008
    8:54 am

    Noah, I’m not sure Dan can hook you up with either twin.

  • Sheamus
    May 15th, 2008
    9:01 am

    Wouldn’t it be just a perfect world if the Adsense on Chess.com linked back to Red Hot Pawn, with a banner that said, “OK… WE LIED. CLICK HERE TO GO BACK.”

  • Erik
    May 15th, 2008
    9:41 am

    google targeted placements + inattentive competitive webmasters = fun :D

  • Erik
    May 15th, 2008
    9:43 am

    Noah, when are you going to send me that feedback on why Chess.com “isn’t ready”?

  • frank
    May 15th, 2008
    9:44 am

    dood, that is the best book ever… oh ok, now i just noticed i left a similar comment on your book report about that book.. uhhh.. anyway, so yeah, people.. that book is worth it.. and i’m not trying to enter the competition because i already have the book.. just trying to encourage others

  • Ray
    May 15th, 2008
    11:03 am

    waste of a check, mate

  • Noah Kagan
    May 15th, 2008
    1:47 pm

    I did this with mint.com on all the financial blogs.

    Erik,

    I will send you an email:)

  • Zach Hale
    May 15th, 2008
    4:11 pm

    Which do you prefer, chess.com or redhotpawn.com? Maybe it’s for the best.

  • Erik
    May 15th, 2008
    4:27 pm

    he prefers RHP because he hasn’t spent any time on Chess.com really ;) just like how some people still use AOL email address because they haven’t taken the time to learn gmail…

  • Juan
    May 16th, 2008
    9:03 am

    There is a say in Spanish, or more likely, in Argentinean, that says: “The crocodile who sleeps, becomes a wallet” or something like that would be the translation. In this case, it could be: “The King who sleeps, becomes a checkmate”. Did I win the book?? :P

  • Chuckles
    May 17th, 2008
    3:13 am

    Noah,

    Minimum moves for black checkmate?

  • Harish
    May 17th, 2008
    12:16 pm

    Well, when nerds don’t get any action, they play/watch some Red Hot Pawn. The advertisement is just a quick escape to something a little less.. hot, for when the SO comes home ;)

  • Noah Kagan
    May 21st, 2008
    7:26 pm

    i prefer redhotpawn for some things since its just for playing chess while chess.com has many more features. it reminds me of a multi-printer that can do a lot but vs. a stand-alone printer it won’t do as well in printing.

    the winner of difficult conversations is chris;)

  • Yuval
    May 22nd, 2008
    6:12 am

    Ok, I just Googled “pwned”. Chris should get 3 copies :)

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