I am assuming that I have this part correct, right?
Now, let's say that I want to see AdWords ads for ... luxury hotels in Boston Massachusetts ... So I type in the aforementioned phrase. Now, my question is, will I be shown AdWords ads where the bidders have targeted only a specific geographic location, say for example, Boston, Massachusetts?
Keep in mind that I am only wondering about the AdWords ads that have targeted the geographic area for Boston, Massachusetts and not those AdWords ads that contain the keywords ... Boston, Massachusetts ... along with ... luxury hotels.
So, will I then be shown those AdWords ads?
AWA will probably have to clarify this, but this is what I've found in my own searches.
If I specify a geographic region, and no local ads are shown from that region, then I might be served a local ad to me amongst the ads even though I didn't search for that region. (i.e. if I search for 'boston luxury hotel', I might see an ad for the pennsylvania geo region for luxury hotel.)
If I specify a geographic region, and there are local ads for that region, I'll see them, but not my local ads.
This can cause me to be able to do the same search again (refreshing the page doesn't seem to work, just click the search button again, and even with the same term, it will switch which sets of local ads I see.) *see below for another thought.
So, if say a boston hotel does local advertising. And they have multiple campaigns where their ad could show (i.e., they advertise on 'boston luxury hotel' nationally, and 'luxury hotel' regionally), then when their regional ad is shown, I can't see my local ads, but if their national ad is shown, then I might see my local ads instead.
Hope that makes sense.
* This also leads me to beleive that once a query is sent through the G DB, it's 'set' with a geographic region (and other info), and what ads might be shown until another search is entered.
Maybe clearer phrasing: Every time a search is done, Google 'locks' in certain information, and refreshing a page, while it might change some ads, doesn't reset the stored information on that query until another query (even the exact same one) is entered.
This might be old news to regular readers of the Google forums, but I don't mess with how the datacenters work much.
