Hi all, Anyone ever get this error message? I'm trying to start a new basic ad campaign and it's been sitting "Under review" for 2 days now. What usually causes this? The only thing I can think of is the URL..which I wanted to ask you guys. Can the Display URL be different than the actual execution of the link for a text ad? I want to target a subpage of mine and the URL doesn't fit in the Ad. So I put my homepage URL in the ad and the target URL is my subpage. Is this allowed? Thanks
I asked Google about this the first time I altered my Adwords campaign. Their reply was their helpful reply: Ads submitted to our program are reviewed according to our advertising policies and guidelines, which can be found at http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guidelines.cs&?utm_id=au. Changes to your ad text, URL, or keywords will also be reviewed. Please know that some ads will not run until after they have been reviewed. To avoid interruption in your ad delivery when you edit your ad, create a new ad in your ad group instead of editing your old ad. Your old ad will continue running while the new ad is reviewed. Then, once your new ad is running, you can simply delete your old ad. Hope this helps.
Approval seem to take a little longer lately. Patience is key. I also noticed the same on Yahoo. Some words in your ad will trigger a manual review and that's what takes a while sometimes and could take a week. As for URL rules, pretty simple. If the final URL destination is the domain "www.xyz.com" after all redirects (the domain one will see looking at their browser's URL display bar), that's the display URL you must use in your ad. The system pretty much tells you this right away if you get it wrong. The display URL of the ad only needs to show the domain name, not the whole URL string which can be quite long. You have 35 characters to use for the display URL but the destination URL allows up to 1024 characters. So if your destination URL is "www.someaffiliatesite.com?myaffid=12345&blahblahblah" which eventually redirects to any page on the domain "www.somewebsite.com", the display URL must be "www.somewebsite.com" and can be displayed in the ad in any of the following manners (remove the quotes, I'm only doing this so no links to a fictitious site are generated): "www.somewebsite.com" "somewebsite.com" "www.somewebsite.com/productX" "somewebsite.com/productX" "productX.somewebsite.com" Note that for the last three above, the sub-domain and sub-page (/productX) does not need to exist (although would be a good idea if it did).