June 26th, 2008 Archive

Missing URLs in Google Ad Preview Tool

June 26th, 2008 by Renner in Tools

Take a look at the results for any search when using the Google Ad Preview Tool and you’ll notice the URLs for the natural results are now missing.

I suppose the main theme of this tool always has been to see what ads are showing up for search queries without affecting CTR by clicking/not clicking during a normal search….but I’m not sure how having the URLs in the natural results negatively affects anyone.  You can do the same search on Google’s search page to see what sites are ranking for a particular query but then that defeats the purpose of using the Ad Preview Tool in the first place.

Hmmm.