Microsoft Adcenter srsly

by Jeremy Schoemaker on September 14, 2007 · 62 comments

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1 Andy September 14, 2007 at 8:40 am

First

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2 Paul Bradish September 14, 2007 at 8:55 am

Random errors, downtime, and glitches? From Microsoft? No way! Seriously though – I just put a new client on Adcenter PPC and definitely feel your pain.

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3 Gnet September 14, 2007 at 9:05 am

I just started on adcenter getting the same damn email over and over again…
I marked it as spam now, everything went calm lol

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4 dapyx September 14, 2007 at 9:05 am

I have the inbox filled with the same emails ;) so it’s not just you haha.. that’s microsoft, the most powerful corporation in the world.

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5 knupNET September 14, 2007 at 9:06 am

Unbelievable. I have never used adcenter because I’ve heard some bad things about it. This just confirms it a bit. Google gets it!

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6 Jeremy September 14, 2007 at 9:08 am

I’ve been posting about my experience with adCenter’s review process for a few months now:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=379355

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7 Dave September 14, 2007 at 9:18 am

wow… do you have en entire folder for “legal people”?

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8 browie September 14, 2007 at 9:36 am

Sooooooooo, You’re saying they suck? LoL

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9 SonicReducer September 14, 2007 at 9:41 am

Yep, looks like another typical adcenter spam morning.

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10 Aditya Kumar Singh September 14, 2007 at 9:48 am

Microsoft and Peace of mind never go together. Same case with my laptop i brought today with windows vista loaded. I was first time using vista, got pissed off making some softwares work :(

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11 SUP3RNOVA September 14, 2007 at 9:59 am

Amen to that, I still get a ton of those emails.

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12 Merrick September 14, 2007 at 10:03 am

I got those same emails on campaigns that were paused.

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13 katurday September 14, 2007 at 10:18 am

Not surprising, sounds like any Microsoft product.

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14 Massimo September 14, 2007 at 10:27 am

Not surprise its naturally

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15 Massimo September 14, 2007 at 10:30 am

I quote katurday ;-)

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16 Massimo September 14, 2007 at 10:31 am

Its naturally

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17 paymebig September 14, 2007 at 10:31 am

whats the point? If they (MS) can’t tell you what words are exactly the problem, why even mention them? Pretty stupid

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18 Contest Beat September 14, 2007 at 10:42 am

adCenter FTW!

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19 Brent September 14, 2007 at 10:44 am

LMAO, that’s a ton of ‘em. I’ve got a filter set up in my Outlook to automatically delete those.

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20 Gil Megidish September 14, 2007 at 10:51 am

… that you’re using mac? …

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21 Gecko Tales September 14, 2007 at 11:03 am

I always wait a year or so before using any new Msft launch or new product/service to give them time to work the bugs out. They have had plenty of time to clean up Adcenter. I’ m glad I’m still not using it.

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22 Justin Cook September 14, 2007 at 11:25 am

What’s wrong with the picture is that you’re not using Thunderbird…

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23 Nathan September 14, 2007 at 11:30 am

Woot, looks like Shoemoney has facebook!

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24 DonnyC September 14, 2007 at 11:43 am

Same thing happened to me this morning. My entire account was effected – even the campaigns that were already paused. Great.

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25 CPA Affiliates September 14, 2007 at 12:11 pm

I can feel your pain man I am getting the same messages. It is crazy man i dunno what they are doing.

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26 Joeychgo September 14, 2007 at 1:26 pm

im not even paying attention to MSN – they move too slow for me and really dont seem to be able to get anything going online.

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27 Word Hugger September 14, 2007 at 1:41 pm

At least it isn’t pharmaceutical emails, or “Re: Hello” that make you want to take a look at them. You can easily mass delete them without worrying that one is legit.

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28 doug m September 14, 2007 at 1:45 pm

whenever i see a microsoft error now it sort of just falls to the wayside, it’s to be expected from them now.

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29 Jonathan Volk September 14, 2007 at 2:10 pm

If I didn’t need to know which keywords needed change, all these emails would be direct to my spam box.

Hilarious how many you get…

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30 corey September 14, 2007 at 2:42 pm

hopefully you’re my competition

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31 Doyle Lewis September 14, 2007 at 3:18 pm

They fucked up ad creation pretty good the last couple days too. Need to import them, click back, then click continue to get them to show up.

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32 Theo September 14, 2007 at 4:22 pm

That’s some really nice spam.

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33 Cygnus September 14, 2007 at 4:47 pm

I dislike how difficult they make it to actually cancel an account…seriously, let me pay the final charges and close it out. It’s no wonder virtual credit cards are such a hit.

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34 Travel Notebook September 14, 2007 at 5:15 pm

Wow that would piss me off

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35 Joe September 14, 2007 at 5:37 pm

You should click them all in case they’re important.

Maybe some of them are offering V!agr@, r01ex w@tches, or pre@pprov!ng you for a h0me 10@n!!!!!!

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36 Grivon September 14, 2007 at 5:38 pm

It sure doesn’t seem to be one of their top priorities.. then again nothing at microsoft does… with such an ENORMOUS company, could they posisbly be losing out on productivity by making unneccessary employee cutbacks??

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37 Grivon September 14, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Lol on second thought… watching them spam my hero (shoe) so badly.. gives me all the more reason so spam them back :p

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38 Israel September 14, 2007 at 5:41 pm

hahah, thats Microsoft for ya.

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39 Tracy September 14, 2007 at 9:22 pm

Hey, is it just me or does Adcenter tend to default to the max bid on keywords too, I have went in to add keywords a couple times and then when I saved it noticed they had changed the bid price for all keywords to max bid so had to go back and crank it back down to affordability, I don’t have Shoemoney money, lol.

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40 Gary R. Hess September 14, 2007 at 9:45 pm

Well, lets just hope they won’t be in beta for two years like another large corporation and get some things figured out soon.

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41 Seo Next September 15, 2007 at 12:37 am

Ya adcenter cant become like adsense even after 6 years, because Microsoft mainly aim no high earning programs.Lets hope atleast Vista will be good in next version.

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42 King Jacob September 15, 2007 at 12:54 am

Sadly the majority of the people in my niche use MSN so I have to work with adcenter but hopefully either they were change or my audience will switch to google.

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43 All Seo Services September 15, 2007 at 12:59 am

So now Microsoft joins the spam gang – lol

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44 lyricsreg September 15, 2007 at 1:59 am

lol … microsoft spam … the best spam there is :)

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45 Seo Next September 15, 2007 at 5:43 am

From how many days u are using adcenter you made any money from it till now?

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46 Seo Next September 15, 2007 at 5:44 am

OH , i was trying to start adcenter this days after seeing your comments i have to top i think.

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47 Seo Next September 15, 2007 at 5:46 am

Oh i have also brought new laptop saw vista for 2 days and deleted it and using my linux back.Windows will never improve its security and bugsfixes.

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48 Seo Next September 15, 2007 at 5:48 am

i,am also in your list and they are many more here, looks other side competition is very less.

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49 Seo Next September 15, 2007 at 5:50 am

Shoemoney money ? you mean huge money or easy money plz be clear. hahaahaa

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50 Modern Worker September 15, 2007 at 11:34 am

I stopped using AdCenter a few months back, it’s such a trash program

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51 Chetan September 15, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Wow u are getting spammed by World #2 site :D

Man but frankly, its pissing me off!

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52 ferrarislave September 15, 2007 at 3:37 pm

do you use dspam and dovecot? I see the spam trainer ;)

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53 aeiouy September 15, 2007 at 4:40 pm

I will take the editors at Microsoft over Yahoo! any day. When I follow up the Microsoft edits, they are at least based in logic and sense. 90% of the time what Yahoo! editors do make no sense.

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54 Tracy Robinson September 16, 2007 at 11:16 am

I would take either huge or easy, just Shoe Me the Money!

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55 Instant Community September 17, 2007 at 7:06 am

Well, its the regular spam that we all do receive from MSN. Spam filter would be the choice.

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56 Geiger September 17, 2007 at 10:15 am

I know! I basically stopped using them because I am so annoyed. Why don’t they just copy Google’s interface? Hey, it worked for Windows!

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57 stupid 3gp September 17, 2007 at 11:39 am

Block :)

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58 The Dino September 29, 2007 at 6:49 pm

What is this actualy?

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59 Celebrities & Blog Tips October 13, 2007 at 1:52 pm

Wasn’t impressed with them at all!!!

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60 Vickywebworld October 14, 2007 at 1:19 am

Can Soft really handle adcenter

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61 Mylo January 31, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Microsoft and Peace of mind never go together. always problems

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