Display URL

[zeus661]

I have noticed that some adwords writers do not have a display URL link that links directly to the company they are selling. Instead they have a link like mywebsite.com/widgets. If you actually go to the display URL it has a link to the official web site. Can you set up an ad so that when clicked on you are taken directly to the official web site but your display URl is actually your own website.com/widgets like I explained above?

Doing this would show two ads for the same company at the same time but the display URL's would be different?

Anyone doing anything like this?

[zeus661]

Maybe the question I should be asking is, If two people are advertising for the same company how does google know that? Is it the ACTUAL URL or the DISPLAY URL. If it is the ACTAUL URL then my thought above should work?

[HitProf]

Some ad formats (on content sites) simply don't show a url. Is that where you saw that?

[zeus661]

Saw it in a Google Adwords ad. When I clicked on it I was taken to someones web page and all it had was a banner to click on to get to the official web site. Meanwhile when I did a search TWO ads showed for the same company. What the person did was display a URL like mywebsite.com/(official company name here)

My thought was to have the actual URL go to the official web site and the display URL go to MY website with a link to the official company?

[Sweezely]

My thought was to have the actual URL go to the official web site and the display URL go to MY website with a link to the official company?

The display URL and the actual URL must go to the same domain, with no fancy redirects or anything like that. Google cracks down on that sort of thing now that they have the new-fangled one advertiser per domain rule.

[zeus661]

I see it quite a bit, pretty much daily. Since they are products and companies I sell should I report them?

[ElizabethReynolds]

There's a good conversation going on about reporting bad ads at [webmasterworld.com...] Ad your q there and it should get some response.