
Yes, You Possibly Could Make Better Use Of Your AdWords Display URL
Article by Adrian Key
Many AdWords users fail to give enough consideration to their display url. Surprisingly, many are missing out on this golden opportunity to get the most benefit from the last line of text in all their ads.
Most people just type in their website domain name and move on. But, pay close attention now because you could be missing out on a important advertising opportunity for your business!
Making The Most Of Your AdWords Ad URL
Here are just a few of the different ways you can make the best use of your AdWords display url in your ads:
1. Use your most popular keywords as sub-domains.
Suppose you sold dog food and wanted to advertise the organic dog food section of your online store. If you were to create a sub-domain for your website called organic, your display url would become “organic.yourdomain.com”.
Now, whenever people perform searches like “natural organic dog food”, “organic dog food” and “best organic dog food” the word “organc” in your domain name will be highlighted in bold.
This is a terrific way to get extra attention for your ad and gain an advantage over your competition by making your ads stand out more.
Warning: When using this technique, you need to ensure that the domain name in your AdWords display url is the same as in your destination url.
For instance:)An ad like this would be accepted:display url: organic.yourdomain.comdestination url: organic.yourdomain.com/organicdogfood
But, an ad like this one would be rejected:display url: organic.yourdomain.comdestination url: yourdomain.com/organicdogfood
2. Including a keyword in your display url
An alternative way to show keywords in your AdWords ad url is to add them as web page names.
Let us look again at our example website for selling dog food. Our ad this time will focus on the pedigree section of our store.
This time, the main keyword for the ad group is going to be added on the end of your website domain name so that it reads “yourdomain.com/pedigree”.
Don’t be troubled if you haven’t got a web page called “pedigree.html”, AdWords will not disapprove your ad. The display URL doesn’t have to point to an actual web page.
Now, when searchers use keywords like “pedigree dog foods”, “pedigree dry dog food”, and “cheap pedigree dog food” the word pedigree is highlighted in your AdWords ad url. This once again makes your ad stand out more.
3. Advertise your special offers
You are not limited to placing keywords after your domain name. It’s also okay to promote special offers, product names (watch out for copyright infringements) and service offerings.
Let’s examine this idea more closely. Say your online dog food shop has a free e-book on Healthy Eating for Dogs that you want to promote. Your display url might now read, “yourdomain.com/e-book”.
You could also promote your spring sale as yourdomain.com/SpringSale or a discount on all orders using yourdomain.com/50DollarsOff as a display url.
AlWays Keep To AdWords Rules
I’m sure that you are now starting to appreciate that there are endless ways in which you can use your AdWords display url as additional ad space. However, if you want to be sure that your ads will always be approved by Google, then you must stick to the rules:
your display url must use the same top level domain as the destination url.the display url can be no more than 35 characters long.the display url must point to an actual web site but doesn’t have to point to an actual web page within that site.the prefix www. and http: are not needed, in the display url and should be left out to give you more space.your domain name must end with a valid top level identifier like “.com” or “.co.uk”.

