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Click Your Google Ads without Getting Charged for It

Danger Mouse!If you are like me, you go through some severe emotional trauma when you are checking to see how your AdWords ads are operating. I mean, from time to time you are going to want to click on your own Google ad to make sure a) it is going to the right page and b) the transition to your site is quick and smooth. So when you go to hit the button you always have to ask yourself, is making sure this ad works really worth the $X.XX it is going to cost me?

We fret not my Pay-Per-Click Compadres. Google has come out with Google Preview - a place you can go and click on links without getting yourself, or others, charged for it.
And as an added bonus you can check your competitor's ads and landing pages without getting that feeling of guilt that you just cost them money.

You get that guilt...right?

:)

Thanks to the SEO Roundtable for the link...

[UPDATE! Ugh - I was wrong - turns out you can't click on the ads to get to the landing page. Which is totally lame if you ask me. But at least you can see where your ad is without ringing up an impression, right?]

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Comments

Thanks, James!

I tried it out and for some reason it wouldn't let me click through the ad. Are others able to click the ad to see the landing page?

Hey Mike - I threw an update up there, it seems that no one is allowed to click through. Pretty silly in my opinion - kinda reduces the power of the tool.

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