Spice Up Your ASCII AdWords Campaign With Animated ASCII URLs


Match ASCII URL with AdWordsJust over a year ago, we reported how you can spice up your AdWords ads with ASCII art. I was unable to reproduce it back then and it might have been a link bait stunt, but I found it interesting so I shared it.

The same company wrote how you can brand your URLs to match that AdWords ASCII art, with animated ASCII art in the URL. In short, they somehow used JavaScript to insert ASCII art in the URL and made the art, which was a car, drive down from the right side of the URL to the left side of the URL. Below is a YouTube video which shows it in action. I was unable to reproduce this as well.



Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Spice Up Your ASCII AdWords Campaign With Animated ASCII URLs

andyh,

Hey Barry,

Thanks for the welcome distraction from a long slow day of SEO work!

I mucked about and re-created the URL-Car here:
http://scriptedlife.com/data/javacar.html

It seems fairly simple, but are you saying they had it moving in the SERPs?

Maybe if someone figured out a way to do ASCII art in their meta-descriptions they would finally be useful!




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