Competitor has 2 ads showing for 1 search term

Created a 2nd web page and ad to sell the same product

[Hubie]

is this legal?

can they be banned? now they have 2 ads selling the same product I am, but I only have one ad.

Can I just create 10 different sites with the same product and have 10 ads running? Seems to defeat the purpose...

Hubes

[andye]

No, that's not allowed. Complain to Google.

If one of the ads is actually from an affiliate, then it is allowed.

hth, a.

[Hubie]

where/how do I complain to google?

[Windslide]

Hi there,

I just noticed it the same thing on my competitors, I sent Adwords suppport a mail, they said, send me back the competitors URLs and the ad, and the keyword used to trigger that ad, will check that out.

This was hours ago, so IŽll wait to see what happens.

Best regards.

[Hubie]

Please report back when you get word...I'm interested to see how they handle this sort of thing

[dave741]

I'm interested to see how they handle this sort of thing

My client complained about the same thing twice to me. I wrote to AdWords support and the ads of "bad" users were removed.

[Hubie]

removed as in one ad was removed (and the other stayed) or the advertisers account got removed? (both taken down?)

[Windslide]

Hi,

Adwords finally answered me the mail I sent them regarding Ads showing, not even with the same URL, but also the same text and...They say thereŽs nothing wrong with it....
IŽm speechless.. what the heck...the more I know the human race.. the more a love my dog!

[JasperSEO]

Did you say earlier that there were two different URLs? If so, you could try the WHOIS records and send them a screenshot of both. If the records are private, then you may be out of luck. If it's the same URL, then I'm really surprised.

[deep_alley]

If its different URLs, I doubt google would do anything. According to their policy no two ads can show for the same URL. Does giving the WHOIS info help? I mean even if I did prove that both sites belonged to the same person, would it make a difference?

[Cepheus]

I think this contravenes Googles 'double serving' policy. Advertisers blatently setting up two or more ads to appear on the same page risk being banned.