Same campaign, different countries

Can't run them independently

[robertskelton]

As a non-American, I have an understanding of how other non-Americans respond to internet ads. We basically assume that an ad is from a US business unless told otherwise. Buying products from the USA becomes expensive due to shipping costs, even if they do ship overseas.

So when I am targeting Australians, I like to mention in the ad that it is a Australian business.

And when I target New Zealanders, that it is an NZ business.

(I'm doing affiliate marketing...)

So I run 2 ad campaigns, targeting each country with an ad that mentions that country, but for the same product with the same keywords.

It appears that Google will not let me do this. Despite the fact there can (theoretically) never be both ads showing in the same search results, the usual rules regarding using the same keywords in different campaigns apply.

Is there any way around this?

Or is genuine regional targeting for my product impossible?

[cline]

I run the same keywords with different geographic targets all the time and never have had any problems. Could you say more about what's happening?

[robertskelton]

Different campaigns, different countries, same keywords, same ad - but one different word in the ad to denote the targted country.

When I put up the bid for a keyword in NZ, Adwords stopped showing the ad for the same keyword in Australia.

Adwords Support tell me that it isn't ideal, but the same keyword in different campaigns rules apply regrardless of geo-targeting.