You’re running ads in a different country. How do you quickly check that your ad is running?

Simple!

• Type one of your keywords for this ad into Google
• Put your cursor at the end of the search string it returns
• Append at the end of the line the following:
  • &gl=countrycode
  • where countrycode = your international country extension
  • USA = us
  • UK = uk
  • Canada = ca
  • etc.
• Then hit <CR> to refresh the search with the &gl=us (in the example below) in the search string

This selects a Google USA datacentre to return the search results, and providing there are no other issues like daily budget, inactive keywords, scheduling etc your ad should show – so you know it’s running.