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SEO Strangeness

January 28th 2009 11:38
Google AdSense SEO Weirdness
Worse Things Happen At Sea


Here's something that made me raise an eyebrow and say "Huh?" - especially since it happened on a site as reliable as Google. Come on, you know you trust their search engine more than any other, so don't give me that "reliable? hah!" look.

It was while I was building a new Hub that I thought I would do a bit of research for the keywords. You know, bring in a bit of extra traffic and all that jazz. So I went off to the rather splendid AdWords tool and typed in a few phrases. Things like "bad manager", "bad leadership" and so on.

Among the suggested keywords, with over three million searches, was "Robert". Yes, the name Robert. How the hell did that get on a list of keywords about bad managers? That's just bizarre. So much for SEO.

Other news: monthly earnings figured out. Bad month, but then I've been busy with real life hassle and not with writing as much.

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Comment by Chris Champion

January 28th 2009 23:55
Dear Sir,

I find your post unfair. We managers are so terribly misunderstood.

Sincerely,
Robert

Comment by Spike 2

January 29th 2009 00:00
Mwuhahaha! Excellent. After all that discussion about AdSense on your recent post, I found the fact that Google could happily confuse "Robert" with "Bad manager" quite, well... what's the opposite of reassuring?!

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