I know, I know…you have just submitted an advertisement to Google and you want to see if it’s being displayed so you search for it. Everyone does this, but if you’re still doing it you should stop because you don’t want to interfere with your advertisement’s performance.

Think of it, each time you search for your advertisement, that’s another impression without a click. Yeah, it probably won’t do much, but we all know that with Google every bit counts. Also, in case you don’t know yet…don’t ever click on your own text advertisement. Doing this will 100% damage your account. Google knows who you are by your IP address and a few other things and if their computers track that you clicked on your own text advertisement they will assume you’re attempting to increase your CTR and they may ban you for it. It probably won’t happen if you click on it one or two times, but I wouldn’t recommend doing it at all.

Anyway, since I’ve been receiving emails lately about people trying to find their text advertisements on Google, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to give you access to Google’s Advertiser Search page.

The Advertiser Search page allows you to search for your advertisements as much as you want without it affecting your advertising performance. Google wasn’t too clear on if clicking on your ad on the Advertiser Search page was discouraged, but I don’t think it would hurt your account since this page was specifically built for advertisers. Then again, you never know.

Here’s the address of their advertiser search page:

https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool

Go there and search for your text ads to see their ranking, position, and to find who your competitors are.

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