Inaccurate Display URL - what?

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Inaccurate Display URL: Your Display URL must accurately reflect the
URL of your website; it must be a viable web address that is part of
your ad's destination domain and include the domain extension, for
example: .com, .net, or .org. If your Destination URL is too long for
your ad, please use a shortened version, such as your homepage, that
meets the character limit for this field. Please check your spelling
and symbols for accuracy, and be sure your Display URL does not contain
an extraneous 'http://' or 'https://'.
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Okay, AdWords keeps shutting off my ad because of the reason stated above. I am using php to forward to the offer page from a directory.

Ex:
http://site.com/offer

I'm using php:
<? header("Location: ...... "); ?>

and I'm having it forward to the offer landing page. For my display URL I've used both:
www.site.com
and
www.site.com/offer

They were both shut off eventually. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Luke
 


Wherever the final landing page is, thats what your display url has to be
 
It says that if the display url is too long to use a shortened version. Would I just use like blahblahblah.com? (landing page.com) ?
 
Yeah that should work. Are you using your own domain for a landing page or just feeding the affiliate site? If you use the affiliate url, you can only have 1 listing per url, so if someone outbids you it will not show up.

If it is your own domain, just put the domain name in their, like www.yoursite.com
 
The landing page is the affiliate site. I also see their ad in the results as well. Seems like everything is going fine though because since I changed it this afternoon I haven't gotten it disapproved.

We'll see if it's still up tomorrow. If it's not I might just have to make my own landing page.
 
Nothing personal stickycarrots, this is a legitimate question I have...dont they teach this crap to you in Affilliate Manager 101 or something? Surely you must work with people who know this stuff frontwards and backwards...I would think, maybe I'm wrong.

S.
 
lol...well...I have to admin...I don't remember taking Affiliate Manager 101, but... :p

I work with a lot of people who do SEM, but we're more worried about how ads are performing and getting the right ads running. I've never used AdWords myself and that's why I was questioning why Google was taking down my ad. I think it has been worked out though, as they haven't disapproved it.

I was just asking because I figured there was a rule I missed or something.
 
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