“Is that a mirage, or just product placement?”, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

This comic is brought to you by: Keyword Discovery | Syndicate Kahuna | Romow Web Directory | SEOHosting.com

I’m sure this month’s Ranked Hard SEO comic will draw some controversy, and to be quite honest, that probably is not a bad thing. Whoever said there is no such thing as bad publicity had a point.

The idea for this comic spawned from our previous comic, “Your Link Here“, which poked some fun at the link buying tactics used by some SEO companies. The next logical step, as Ranked Hard’s writer Simon points out, is product placement. Of course it happens in television and movies all the time, and I’m sure we aren’t the first comic to use it either. We did try to put a humorous spin on it by overdoing it to the point that the comic is lost in the advertisements.

Prior to today (Oct. 3, 2008), we hadn’t had any ads on this site in any form. We have been running the comic for 9 months without revenue or distracting ads, and to kick off our foray into the advertising model we thought a tongue-in-cheek theme about product placement in the comic would be a great way to do it. You will be seeing ads on the site in the future (we have monstrous bills to pay), but this should be the only time you see an advertisement in a comic.  Notice I used the word should.  I can’t guarantee we won’t sell out if large bags of cash are thrown at us….I’m only kidding.  We will never put ads in the actual frames again.  So thanks for your readership and for your future support.

And with that said…

If you want to advertise on Ranked Hard, contact marketing {at} RankedHard {dot} com.