Question about redirects and display URLs

[Fox]

I apologise in advance if this topic has been widely discussed in the past but I couldn't see anything in the first few pages.

The company I consult to is a small to medium online business with a small office in Australia, US and UK. They own .com.au, .co.uk and .com domains and were all duplicate sites. I organised a 301 redirect to .com as the primary site for SEO purposes.

My problem is with PPC campaigns we target the UK, US and AU separately and wish to use the .com.au, co.uk and .com domains appropriate to the market as the display URL.

Some ads seem to be ok but others are disapproved due to the URL. I guess it is against Google guidelines to display a URL that redirects to another.
This is where it is hard for small business to target local markets when they do not have the resources to have three separate and independent sites.

Does anyone have a similar scenario and if so, how do you handle it?

LF

[abbottsys]

Yes, I recently had the same problem. Adwords does not like redirects in the display and landing URLs. Just use your primary domain in the display url and in the landing page url.

[Discovery]

A bit off topic, many sites also use Google maps to aid their visitors in finding them. Unfortunately, Gmaps require a key to use the map on your website, this key can only be tied to a single domain name. Many companies need two domain names, their real name and a common misspelling, or plural version. Your ad may go to one domain name, but in the course of navigating the site end up on another sub or related domain, breaking the key and producing a popl up error - say Goodbye.

Google has yet to solve the multiple domain name scenario many legitimate companies need to deploy to properly capture all traffic that was intending to reach their website and direct them to a targeted section of the site.

The problem multiplies when you factor in that you need to set up a new google account for every domain name you wish to alias to your main website. Some companies may have 50 or more names pointing to their site.

One solution involves creating Gaccounts for each domain name then use include files with a bit of scripting (pick your flavor) that will subtitue in the proper key(s) for a specific domain name. Although, this gets dangerously close to offending Google's TOS.

Bottom line is that Google is set up to allow us to use just one domain name for all of their services, when in the real world most companies need a minimum of 2. A more elegant solution needs to be offered by the big G.

Discovery