Google Headaches
This is a new headache type for me, so please forgive me if I get a few facts wrong. It’s only been out for a few years. As always, please do not use this blog in the place of your doctor’s diagnosis and advice. But apparently the new scourge to head as everywhere is Google headaches. At least, according to blogger Andy Beal/Al Scillanti of Marketing Pilgrim who had to try and deal with yet another update to Goodle AdWords.
Google Must Have a Lot of Free Time on Their Hands
While trying to manage his AdWords account, things got trying for our blogger Al. He finally gave up and wrote Dear Google, You’re Giving Me a Headache. At the end of the post is a plea for acetominophen for his Google headache. Being a brave soul, he also put his address on the blog (a practice I don’t recommend).
Google sent him the requested bottle of painkiller, but sent aspirin insted of acetominophen. Well, I guess they can’t get everything right.
Why Now?
The really interesting thing is that this cute little exchange happened in 2006 and it’s getting a lot of buzz now, especailly on news sites like Topix, partially due to a site called “idiggweed.com”. Perhaps it’s just one of those stories that refuses to die completely, but resurfaces one in a while like a gypsy mosth infestestation.
That and it can be really difficult at times thinking up ideas for blog posts, especially ones with Google-friendly titles, keywords and tags. Ocassionally, you start recycling the stories of others. If you’re partially depending on affiliate marketing, than you cross your fingers and pray to the Google Gods that the ads won’t completely obscure your blog post or that you actually make some money off of them this time around.
Don’t computers make our lives so much easier?
Back to the usual shennanigans tomorrow.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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