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How to see your ads when they're running overseas

May 1st, 2008 | By David Rothwell | Category: Quick Tips

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.

 overseas ads.jpg

 

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