Country exclusion issue in Google Adwords

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by abrodski, Oct 23, 2012.

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    I live in Israel, but I have a site in Russian. We have lots of russian-speaking people here who use google.ru (in russian Windows) as opposed to google.com or google.co.il
    I created a PPC campaign in Google Adwords with a goal of targeting Russian speakers in Russia and the Ukraine (but not here!). Therefore, I just added Russian Federation and the Ukraine as the ONLY 2 countries where my ad should run. And it does work, generally speaking, BUT... when someone in ISRAEL who has Windows in Russian AND who goes to google.RU types in Russian certain phrases, that triggers my ad to appear, unfortunately, and I waste my money. I thought about an IP banning, but that probably won't work, since (from what I understood) you can only ban so many IPs (basically very few single IPs and banning on a whole country scale).
     
    abrodski, Oct 23, 2012 IP
  2. hostas

    hostas Greenhorn

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    for this you need to change campaign settings:

    Campaign settings > Location options (advanced) > Target and choose People in my targeted location
     
    hostas, Oct 25, 2012 IP
  3. abrodski

    abrodski Member

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    Thanks a lot!!!
     
    abrodski, Oct 25, 2012 IP