AdCenter: Sucking Harder Than A Dyson
You might enjoy using Microsoft AdCenter and at one point, I was as well. If you'd used Microsoft's AdCenter about two months ago, you would've been somewhat content with their turnaround time on approving ads and keywords.
Well fast forward to now where it takes about 12-24 hours to get your keywords and junk approved, I must say I am thoroughly disappointed.
It's not that I'm surprised about this being a Microsoft product, but more-so that the third runner in the PPC Search Engine battle would be so careless about their service. I mean, seriously, AdCenter has gotten worse rather than better. As Google and Yahoo strive to improve their service, make it faster, make the user experience better for the customers and the seller, Microsoft doesn't seem to give two shits either way. Just check out this graph from QuantCast:
As you can see, all three seem to be maintaining a steady flow of visitors. But if you look closely, Yahoo is slightly losing traffic; Google is slightly gaining and Microsoft has a slow but steady drift down, down, down.
Is this any real surprise to me? No! Because they are sucking harder than a dyson (as stated in my clever title). If they're so terrible on the advertising side, it's no wonder they're sucking eggs on the search side.
I don't have much more to rant about other than to say: MICROSOFT, for the love of all that is holy, STOP SUCKING.
Thank You,
Scott Weaver
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December 7th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I have to agree that I really HATE using that website. It’s so stinking slow and sluggish.
Traffic is pretty insignificant for most keywords too meaning long tail keywords = pretty hard to find good ones.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Yeah – a while ago, it sucked less, but those days are over. :/
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