Don’t ask us why we were looking for an Aston Martin. But something rather critical about the Aston Martin PPC campaign caught our attention, in-fact we have witnessed the campaign error for the best part of a week.

A search for “Aston Martin” in Google brings us the following ad:

When we click on this ad this is the landing page

No site configured at this address ‘gclid=CNTD1o29ipUCFQ5tMAodOR58rg’. An additional configuration error occurred.

The Google tracking ID is causing the error and it seems the PPC guys haven’t spotted this. The ad is supposed to just go to the Aston homepage.

Well I know for a fact that if the guys in our PPC Management team had set this up Dave would now be grilling them. We can all appreciate that it takes time to learn effective PPC Management but such lack of attention to detail is inexcuseable, especially when the brand is so well known. I wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of the PPC Management team for Aston Martin at the moment.

Searching is not always done through the net. Yes, there is a physical world out there too. Many have spent their lives searching for Bigfoot. Perhaps once thought a mythical beast it seems Georgia may have indeed found the mighty Bigfoot. Is this yet another example of link bait ? Well, Google trends think the story is hot. This time though the story may well be backed up with evidence as the DNA details of the Bigfoot Body are to be presented at the press confernce on Friday August 15th.

There must be some SEOs that read this blog in the region of Georgia, USA. What’s the story guys ?

This totally freaked me out today, I was signed into my Gmail account and was going to check the adsense test we had been running, which isn’t connected to my Gmail account so I normally have to logout and sign in has Becky my wife ( it’s her account lol ), but to my surprise and of course total excitement my Google account entered straight into adsense.. even more excitement when it WAS NOT MY Account !!!

Not sure what to do really, they have only made $8, haha but I can edit he payee details lol

DaveN

Gmail is one of my favourite mail systems. Why ? Well, I guess it true I never really delete anything and the storage capacity is huge. However, the outage I experienced yesterday was also huge: “We’re sorry, but your [Gmail]* account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.”

Temporary error 502

Google have had engineers working on the system to pinpoint the 502 errors. Was everyone affected or was it simply a subset of users ? I love the capacity and indeed functionality that Gmail offers but I guess the level of dependence I have put on the mail system is too high, I expect it there when I need it 24/7

Come on Google why was Gmail Down ?

August 11,

Lil Wayne has issued a statement, calling the rumors “false” and “unfounded.” and denying that his daughter had been killed,The rapper said the child was “alive, healthy and surrounded by family who care and love her dearly.”

I had an email through this morning asking me if I knew that “Lil Wayne’s daughter Reginae” had died in a car accident on Sunday night. Well, please forgive my ignorance but I didn’t actually know who ” Lil Wayne” is. I had to ask Dave. Dave as usual knew the answer “An American Rapper !”, he replied, did I not know?

Well looking into this through search, it’s quite difficult to decide if this story is again true or not. Is this story just an example of finely tuned link bait…?

Looking in Google for ” Lil Wayne daughter dies” returns a high volume of results and the term is currently heading up Google Trends too, no 6 for “Lil Wayne Daughter”

Recent posts have indicated that the story is not true, with unverified statements from family members saying that the story is totally false. It’s always difficult to confirm if news stories hold any truth.

Is it down to Google to stop such rumours if the truth cannot be confirmed ? How would this be possible ?