Well, I guess my site finally made the big time

[carguy84]

2 "websites" have purchased my domain name/company name as an adword keyword. Does this put me in any kind of cool club with badges or pins or anything?

But in all seriousness, what is weird about this scenario, is that they didn't buy the adwords for "company.com" they bought "allinurl:company.com".

Have any of you seen this before, or bought similiar ads?

Thanks,

Chip-

[Jenstar]

One if my sites is named a brandable word I created. If you see this word, it is in relation to my site, so there is nothing remotely generic about it. There are well over a dozen advertisers for this single "keyword". I do see some of them show up on my AdSense ads on the same site, so I suspect they did it not only for the search, but while trying to get their ads to appear on my site's AdSense ad units too.

[ken_b]

but while trying to get their ads to appear on my site's AdSense ad units too.

Does this seem to work?

[eWhisper]

But in all seriousness, what is weird about this scenario, is that they didn't buy the adwords for "company.com" they bought "allinurl:company.com".

Sometimes, I buy the 'seo' terms (allinurl:example.com, link:example.com, etc) to see how active some of my competitors are in checking their links and SEOing their sites.

Knowing which ones are very active, and which ones don't fret about these searches can help in determining which competitors to keep an eye on, as well as looking for sudden spikes in these queries.

[Jack_Hughes]

eWhisper,

Surely that won't tell you the whole story. I am paranoid enough never to click though a link with a query that is even remotely telling about what I am up to.

Unless it's just me being paranoid.

[arran]

Jack, you wouldn't have to click - the impression would give it away.

[eWhisper]

Jack, you wouldn't have to click - the impression would give it away.

exactly.

;)

[Jack_Hughes]

Aaaah, cunning...!

[Jenstar]

Does this seem to work?

Seems to work to some extent - one uses my business name as the title, so I noticed it, and was the reason I did the Adwords ego search ;)

[carguy84]

well, I clicked their add and I got a wicked server error, go figure.

Turns out, after some research, this website/company and their IPs have been blacklisted for years. A simple search in google told me all I needed to know about them.

eWhisper, I hadn't thought of that reason, good looking out!

Chip-