Adwords to Search site

[Jon12345]

Does Adwords allow links to a search site where you have already queued up the search string and list potential sites?

e.g. Your advert is "graduate jobs" and when you click the adwords advert you are taken to your own search engine with "graduate jobs" already populated in the search engine box and the listings for graduate jobs shown below.

Is this allowed nowadays? I thought I read somewhere that it might not be but I'm not sure!

Thanks,

Jon

[inbound]

Google will not allow a pre-poulated search box if that goes on to show their search results and adverts that you make money from.

It's really annoying because I've had a similar situation. Also, you probably know the best way to search for the item you are trying to make money from, the user often does not have a clue.

[Jon12345]

I am unsure whom you are referring to when you say "their". Do you mean you cannot have a pre-populated search if it goes on to show Google listings?

Or, you cannot have a pre-populated search that goes on to show your own listings?

[eWhisper]

Google will not allow a pre-poulated search box if that goes on to show their search results and adverts that you make money from.

This sounds like you're talking about AdSense. AdSense TOS doesn't allow a prepopulated search box.

If you're not running AdSense, and you are taking them to your site, you can bring users to a search result page and prepopulate your own site search box.

[Jon12345]

eWhisper, so you are saying that is is ok to use Adwords and send to a pre-populated search page?

[eWhisper]

I guess the answer is as long as it doesn't violate the TOS of any ads/relationships on your site (i.e. like the AdSense search).

As far as the AdWords TOS is concerned, it's not been a problem to date.

There are plenty of large advertisers that run a search after you click on the ad by looking at the referral string of the user search or adwords click.