Setting up a Country Specific Campaign

Having a few issues

[notuagain]

Hi first (probably not last) post here so hello :)

I've just set up an account and started 2 campaigns as i cannot set up country specific adgroups within a single campaign.

To give a picture, I have a very generic European 'widget' but not as generic in US + Rest of the world so I done the following:

CAMPAIGN 1
Set up a country specific campaign that shows only in US, Canada, South America and Australia, with a good listing of negatives

widget
-negative word1
-negative word2
-negative word3
...etc

CAMPAIGN 2
Non-specific country campaign thats is formatted as follows:

[widget + keyword1]
[widget + keyword2]
[widget + keyword3]
...etc
-negative word1
-negative word2
-negative word3
...etc

The problem is I'm UK based and when I look on google.com and do a simple search for 'widget' CAMPAIGN 1 is dispayed, when it should be only dispayed to US, Canada South American and AUS countries?

Any thoughts?

[lazerzubb]

Your ISP might be using a US proxy, or Google might have problems deciding where you are located, remember it's not %100 sure.

[avmgeo]

I believe Google determines the origin country by checking whether the search was launched from a "local Google page" or not.

So if you use [google.co.uk...] for the search UK targeted adwords will show up but they won't if you use www.google.com.

[notuagain]

Hi all, thanks for responses.

It appears that Google couldn't accurately ascertain which country the IP was coming from (AOL UK based) and now inconsistently displays results dependant on designated IP from AOL. Not a big issue, at least I now know how the issue arose.