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Re:Cash4Gold Competitor's Clever Adwords Hack by dcdan on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @12:06PM (#2227170)
This is ending up on marketwatch.com only after a JS redirect from the ad landing page.

http://www.goldfellow.com/currentmarketwatchlink/

Re:Cash4Gold Competitor's Clever Adwords Hack by jbenz on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:25PM (#2227549)
Interesting that they managed to use "marketwatch.com" as the display URL at the bottom of the ad. If the link is going to the goldfellow URL first, then then the display url should match goldfellow. It is another violation of Adwords policy if your display URL and destination URL are different.

(Although in this case, I guess the destination URL is marketwatch.com.... eventually. But if they are using the redirect this Adwords user did not enter a display URL that matched the destination URL they entered.)

Re:Cash4Gold Competitor's Clever Adwords Hack by dcdan on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:46PM (#2227658)
It is against the terms.

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&...

"...advertisers cannot use destination URLs that automatically redirect to another website or that act as a bridge page."

Re:Cash4Gold Competitor's Clever Adwords Hack by maxniederhofer on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @04:38PM (#2228425)
They're not using a destination URL that redirects or acts as a bridge page. They're using a redirect to the destination URL.