Scott Van Achte of StepForth writes about the difficulty of seeing your competition in geo-targeted ads. If you don't live in the country to which competing ads are targeted, you probably never see them. Scott describes a simple way to trick Google into displaying them. This small and innocuous hack would work only at the national level of geo-targeting.
"After you perform your search in Google, go up to the address bar and at the end of the URL add the text 'gl=uk'; (or instead of uk, any applicable country code), hit enter and you will now see a listing of AdWords ads that are targeted towards the UK."
1. good work...
Posted at 6:05AM on Dec 19th 2005 by adma