Google pay per click (PPC) advertisers often like seeing their ad on google. This is not a good practice though because google will see the ad as being shown but not clicked on, thus assuming it is not as relevant for the search term and will not show that ad as much. There is a nice way to see your ad but not have it count as a valid page view. You simply search for something crazy in google, not related to your term.. Then after you search add “&adtest=on” to the end of the URL in your browser. You will see a new background and a warning at the top letting you know that this is for AdWords advertisers to test their ads. You can then type in your terms into the search box at the top to see where your ads are showing up. Leave me a comment if you like this or use it like I do.
