How to See US Adwords Ads From Outside
April 4, 2008
Stumble it!Sometimes, when you are advertising in Google Adwords to a specific country for example USA and you are from UK you will not be able to see AD’s from US but just from UK. That is a major concern for many adwords advertisers. When you are geo-targetting a country that you are not resident you should check for the competitors and see where your ad is placed or what your competitors are doing. There is a small tip on how you can see other countries AD’s:
Let’s assume that this is the Google URL result:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=googlelady&btnG=Google+Search
This is the default version of Google results from your Country IP. But we want to check results that adwords advertisers are doing for USA only:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=US&q=googlelady&btnG=Google+Search
Check out the bold “&gl=US” this means that you want to see the version of Google results (Adwords ADS & Organic results) from USA. But this only works if adwords advertisers add in general “USA” but in case they add by “state” or “city” you will not be able to see their results. Here is the list of countries operators that you can use:
- &gl=US United States
- &gl=UK United Kingdom
- &gl=CO Colombia
- &gl=CA Canada
- &gl=AU Australia
- &gl=PK Pakistan
- &gl=LB Lebanon
- Use any country abreviattion
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April 4th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Did you try this Firefox plugin to see Google results for different countries?
http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/google-global-view-results-different-locations/
April 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Thanks steph for sharing it. I tried long ago a similar firefox plugin but it seems this is much better with a lot more features.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Thank you this is helpful. I pay for some ads for a different site using adwords but when I look at some of my own sites to see what advertisors ard displayed they show me the ads that are local. I am confused about this as I thought I would be displaying the ads on my sites from all over US (I am in the US). Or does it mean if you are an adwords publisher that you’ll be displaying local ads on your site if you pay for ads in a specific location? Thanks. I don’t want to just show local ads on my own sites nor do I want to just see local ads when I look at others sites.
Deb
April 10th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I skimmed through what you said, and I hope I got the gist of what you said right. Well, I do not deal with that any more. I just make use of AstraGate Resell service as many or most do out there, and all the PPC search results and country issues are taken care of. I do not need to deal with adwords, or be a publisher and select or anything. I make more money now than ever, and it is easier than ever. They automatically take care of generating the page that shows with the populated search results links and more. Not only do I make money from the PPCs (I get something like 90% of the commission google pays), but also I am now getting money from the domains and hosting others are registering and ordering. On top of that, all the domains others park I get paid for the clicks their domains generate too. I use to keep this a secret, but since now so many others obviously have found out about it, what the heck.
Also, I wanted to point out that google advertisers have control on which countries can see their ads, and also if they want it localized, and many are selective. As you have figured out Google will pump out ad results according to the language and country the IP address range of the visitor is from. I really do not care, since through AstraGate Resell, I am making from $.2 to $20 (actually more than that too sometimes) per click, and most are above $1 per click.
March 20th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Google has a tool for this: https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool