Yes in a joke that fooled at best half of somebody, I moved the UKSEOhere map over France, and introduced another tag to the database – a #cheeseeatingsurrendermonkey tag, for a random position somewhere in France. The backstory? An update to the French Postcoding system & changing from Imperial to Metric the Latitude & Longitude of a map resulted in squiffy results. Complete and total BS, that fooled nobody.
Still it was interesting, and I’ve worked out a lot of stuff in the April Fools prank, so not all was lost.
You can still see the map here at our specialist UKSEOhere French map, and any tweet with the phrase #cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys still geolocate to somwehre in France.
If you feel bad because you fell for it, take solice that:-
- In preparing for the prank, I genuinely knocked out my site for 2 hours.
- Google Chrome automatically translated my site into French when browsing the site.
Hope you liked it anyway!