Display URL - I'm comfused

Hi all.

I have a customer, which I prepared for him a quality landing page.

His website url for example is : www.EXAMPLEDOMAIN.com

My website is for example : www.MyOwnDomain.com

I stored the new landing page at : EXAMPLEDOMAIN.MyOwnDomain.com
I cannot store those files under his domain for many reasons.

What should be the display URL in this case ? I tried to understand from the TOC and I didn't manage to find any solution.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance,
Guy,

 

The display URL has to be

MyOwnDomain.com

You cannot use your clients domain due to the way you have it setup

 

I'm confused. Ultimately you want to run ads to: EXAMPLEDOMAIN.MyOwnDomain.com?

Or is this just a mock-up site for now?

Or were you trying to experimentally run ads to your mock-up site?

 

Hi all, thanks for the reply.

I am trying to check a new landing page. The client can't host files on his server so I am using my domain (created a sub domain) to attract visitors and to create leads.

The problem is that I don't know what to write in the display url....

by the way, what's a "mock-up site" ? sorry, it's just my English...

 

This is similar to something I sometimes do.

Very rarely I will link directly to a merchant's site while promoting through Adwords. Since Google has a double serving rule (no one URL can appear twice on the same page), what I do is use a display URL that is very similar to the merchant's but put my affiliate link in the destination URL.

Instead of using MERCHANT.com as the display URL, I'll use MERCHANTT.com instead. Notice the extra "T" at the end.

Of course this URL doesn't exist, it's purely for "DISPLAYING" purposes since Google only asks for a display URL, they never say anything about it being registered (i think)

Of course I'm not sure if it's actually allowed, I learned this trick from another affiliate, but I've not had any problems so far.

 

Google checks the display URL for accuracy...

Have you never ran an adwords campaign before?

 

Sounds like a bad thing to do....

 

LOL... I know what you must be thinking, but believe me, I have done that on some occasions when I don't have a fitting domain for the product I'm promoting and testing.

Like I mentioned, I'm not sure if it's actually allowed but I don't run them for more than a few days...

 

I know, it's like going round the system and that's why I don't do it often...

 

No. it's aboslutely not allowed, you will only get a way with it for a short time, maybe a day or two then Google will disaprove the ad

As of April 1st they will be really clamping down on that and will catch that immediately

 

From the Adwords blog:

n line with our existing policy, we will continue to require that your ad's display URL match its destination URL (the URL of your landing page).

For example, if your destination URL is www.google.com, your display URL must also be www.google.com. The following would not be acceptable display URLs for an ad for www.google.com:

* www.google.co.uk - because this URL leads to a different site
* www.gogle.com - even though this URL simply redirects to www.google.com it is still not acceptable
* www.gooogle.com - because this URL leads to a page showing content identical to www.google.com


Hope it helps.

 

display URL has to be on the same domain as destination URL. if you use EXAMPLEDOMAIN.MyOwnDomain.com as a landing page, then your display url has to be MyOwnDomain.com or MyOwnDomain.com/something

 

or it can be EXAMPLEDOMAIN.MyOwnDomain.com

 

thats right, but it is wise to keep the display url brief so that it fits in one line. that way it looks professional and people can easily read the url