Excluding more than 20 IP addresses?

How do I do it ..

[TravelDog]

Hi,

I know you can exclude 20 IP addresses in Adwords, but I need to block around 400. There's a very good economic reason for this, as the 400IP addresses I wish to block are not valid customers.

How can I achieve this?

Has anyone managed to get google to lift the 20 limit before?

Regards

TD

[AdWordsAdvisor]

TravelDog, if you were to post a much shorter summary of the sticky mail you sent me, in the "Google AdWords Features I'd Like to See, #11" thread in this forum, I'd be happy to include it in the weekly Advertiser Feedback Report that I send out to a great many folks at Google each week.

To be very straightforward, it would need to be about as long as my own post here, in order to be read and fully absorbed by the audience of that report. They will be reading a very long document and have very little time in which to do it.

I've already included your comment above in this week's report.

AWA

[TravelDog]

OK .. when I sent the information to my Account Manager it was too short and they couldn't understand the issue. When I sent it to AWA its way too long! I will have another go?

However, Google does know about this issue, and the reasons why I need to block more IP addresses .. but still I haven't got a response which gives me a solution! Everyone, just passes the problem to someone else?

[cline]

I need more than 20 also. One workaround is to have duplicate campaigns with separate geotargeting in order to block more IP addresses. This can't be efficient for either Google or the advertiser, but sometimes it's necessary.

[sacX]

I've requested this a few times in the "Features I'd like to see" thread. Hopefully a few more requests and it'll move up the list. It can't think increasing the size of the list can be that difficult to implement.

[TravelDog]

Indeed there needs to be a change.

I don't like paying when some of our 400 or so suppliers, click on their specific product add ‘out of curiosity’ to see what we've written about their product, or to see if it there featured on a particular page.

I need to block the suppliers IP addresses.

[AdWordsAdvisor]

I've just passed along the latest feedback from this thread.

That's a very interesting use-case I haven't heard before, TravelDog. Thanks for that. ;)

AWA

[cline]

In some b2b markets there is a relatively limited set of potential customers and well more than 20 direct and indirect competitors going after those customers. The competition's frequent checking can be a rather substantial portion of the ad spend.

[TravelDog]

Cline - I totally agree with you about b2b markets.

We run a fairly large b2c portal - where a worthwhile number of clicks come from competing suppliers (over 400) checking each others offering and prices out on our site.

I can't stop suppliers clicking on ads and I can't exclude them from the site either.

I'm also offered no reasonable solution to resolve the situation except to post my evidence and frustration on a forum!