By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
The Register reported earlier today that Microsoft AdCenter was making available Excel files containing search keywords that no-one was bidding on. So this was your chance to peruse the list, find some keywords that you liked and grab them for a bargain.
The files were here on the front page for quite a while – but no longer. The files have now been pulled, presumably by Microsoft, for reasons unknown. But they were there long enough for me to download one of the files to have a good laugh at some of the keywords on offer.
For example, you could be at the top of the search results for “hairy women” (if that happens to be your niche). Or how about some of the following :
From looking at the list I was able to download before they were all pulled by Microsoft, it’s pretty obvious why no-one is bidding on these keywords – because they are all low quality crap! Still it was good for a laugh, so the list isn’t a total write-off.
But any webmaster with a grain of sense won’t be putting their money anywhere near these keywords – not unless they like throwing it away.
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