Has Adwords abandoned the Australian market?

adwords australian redirects to adwords uk

[gramski]

I've always received very good service from the adwords Australian team. They seemed to review new and changed ads much faster than the main US or UK sites. But in the past week or so when logging in to adwords from google.com.au it redirects to adwords.co.uk. The service is now extremely slow for reviews to get ads onto content and partner sites.

Now I know that adwords has lost a lot of market share to overture in the Australian market so I was wondering have they closed down adwords Australia?

[edit_g]

No, they're very much alive and kicking. Redirecting to .co.uk? I'm not sure what you mean here - I haven't seen anything which corresponds to this.

[AdWordsAdvisor]

But in the past week or so when logging in to adwords from google.com.au it redirects to adwords.co.uk.

Redirecting to .co.uk? I'm not sure what you mean here

gramski, I may be mistaken, but I am about 96% sure the interface for Australia has always been adwords.co.uk.

The service is now extremely slow for reviews to get ads onto content and partner sites.

As edit_g says, Google Australia is certainly alive and kicking - I'm guessing they may be seeing a higher volume of new ads recently. Ad review time is highly related to the volume of new and edited ads in queue for review.

AWA

[gramski]

Thanks for the replies, I don't recall the login page ever going to co.uk in the past, I'm pretty sure it used to go to com.au, but thats probably not all that important really. Hopefully the ads I have waiting for review will be seen to soon, I am glad that adwords are still in Aus.

[anallawalla]

My personal account is at adwords.google.com in US$ but the editorial oversight is from a chap in the Sydney office.

[edit_g]

My personal account is at adwords.google.com in US$ but the editorial oversight is from a chap in the Sydney office.

Same (apart from the editorial oversight, who are both girls) :) - which is why I was perplexed at the .co.uk mention.

[dylan212]

adwords is 100% alive and thriving in australia. i was just involved with a research report on ppc market in australia and google has overwhelming bulk of the pie there but probably not enough staff to handle the heavy requests that they might be seeing as ppc market in OZ is growing rapdily.

if you continue to have difficulties with google there please let me know and i will find a real person there you can contact for more info.