Saw a bunch of new unique visitors (a stat that I actually care about) coming from http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/06/azoogle-this-was-really-well-thought.html. They featured the fake check/picture that AzoogleAds used in a few magazine ads like over a year ago.
The really cool stat is that the users stayed around an average of 3 minutes coming from the gallery and reading posts and some even subscribing the the feed. Welcome new users!
Its pretty awesome to get traffic from sources outside of your niche.
The thread was doing really well until one of their ace detectives quoted text from the page:
June 20, 2008 7:02 AM
Anonymous said…The original page actually states that it’s a poor photoshop:
“This is not a real check it was for a Magazine Ad for AzoogleAds. Yes its photoshop’d (badly). It was an amazingly good campaign for them. Its been on numerous websites who think they have discovered it was fake… even though it says it here. Good for traffic
.”
The other comments are pretty hilarious including one about they should have photoshopped in a toupee too lol!
Anyway check it out:
June 21, 2008 at 8:25 am
Haha, nice! Welcome Shoenewbies!
June 21, 2008 at 8:32 am
Jeremy, “PhotoshopDisasters” is a dead link…might want to fix :.)
June 21, 2008 at 8:33 am
Actually…you need to drop the “/” at end of the the URL.
June 21, 2008 at 8:45 am
Haha. nice. I hadn’t seen that photo before!
June 21, 2008 at 8:49 am
Great site, had some good minutes laughing about the pictures. Thanks!
June 21, 2008 at 9:24 am
Nice, the more the merrier!
June 21, 2008 at 9:39 am
I wonder if this post will make people wonder whether or not the Shoemoney AdSense check is Photoshopped? It looks authentic to me.
June 21, 2008 at 9:48 am
maybe u should run a photoshop contest, see who can come up with the best photoshoped image or maybe a caption contest.
June 21, 2008 at 10:48 am
how do these idiots even think it’s real in the first place, its so obviously not lol
June 21, 2008 at 11:14 am
The facts are there is people actually making that much money more then what people think
June 21, 2008 at 11:26 am
Yeah, you notice the lack of a reflection right away.
June 21, 2008 at 11:28 am
Maybe you can have a “Fix This Photo” contest?
June 21, 2008 at 12:04 pm
five “Hundered” thousand dollars
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June 21, 2008 at 12:12 pm
LOL! It does say “hunderd” hahaha
June 21, 2008 at 2:03 pm
One of the commenters: “The model has such a smart ass look on his face. Hahah.”
Jeremy, you’re a model!
June 21, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Jeremy, what do you track your sites stats with?
June 21, 2008 at 3:16 pm
That’s funny. Genius knows no boundaries.
June 21, 2008 at 5:49 pm
photoshopped the toupee? LOL
June 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm
he tracks it with google analytics i believe
June 21, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Its awesome to get hits from something outside your niche. it just happened to me the other day, someone from moneycentral at msn picked up on a comment I wrote on another blog and I got a ton of hits that day (a ton by my standards, not yours, i’m sure)
June 21, 2008 at 10:11 pm
never really noticed it says hunderd lol
June 21, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I enjoy photoshopped anything, will check it out now!
June 22, 2008 at 3:07 am
Thats pretty funny. Any press is good press.
June 22, 2008 at 4:35 am
Damn! Well anyway, I still enjoy an ad check of any kind if its got a lot of money written on it, it’s still motivating none the less!
June 22, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I’ve been reading that photoshop site for over an hour now!!! It’s great how bad some pics are edited. haah.
Cheers for the link shoe!
June 22, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Nice one Shoe..is your check edited too? Just kidding..huhu
June 23, 2008 at 5:39 am
Hey, you do know how to smile!
June 23, 2008 at 11:13 am
what that check was fake??? what a scam!
June 23, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I think it did the trick. Because of the controversy over the original check, spelling hundred wrong and the obvious photoshop is the icing on the cake. I liked it.
June 23, 2008 at 8:58 pm
The best part: P S D added their own watermark to this image, somehow claiming it as theirs.
June 23, 2008 at 9:06 pm
i had seen some of most obvious scammer here in Malaysia. Trust me, there is worser out there
June 24, 2008 at 2:25 am
Its amazing what you can do with a photograph these days. Nice link.
June 24, 2008 at 2:49 am
That is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in a minute!
June 24, 2008 at 11:24 am
ha..ha..ha that was a lol picture , the funny is it brings a lot of people to coment it,
June 24, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Thats really funny.
June 25, 2008 at 8:19 am
Hey Jeremy,
Here is a modified pic with reflection of the check in the car:
http://www.leftimpact.com/20070430-18/shoemoney-with-azoogle-check-modified-pic.html
Cheers,
V
June 25, 2008 at 6:25 pm
That is pretty funny and the comment on how he just knows IT HAS TO BE REAL because he knows how to fake images is funny.
June 26, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Nice, great site…
July 2, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I haven’t had such fun for a long time. Shoe, thank you very much for the excellent mood.
July 29, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Useless traffic