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    • RosemaryB
      RosemaryB last edited by

      I recently noticed that one of my clients had several redirects in their Adwords text ad destination URLs.  I updated the destination URLS to land on the final location (thereby losing all the text ad history).  However I'm wondering if this could have any impact on the text ad quality scores (none of them were disapproved).

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      • Alick300
        Alick300 last edited by

        Hi Rosemary,

        In simple term answer would be No, that won't have a negative impact on your QS because the landing page is the web page the user lands after all redirects.

        Second thing I would like to point out is Remember that the most important "component" of the QS is CTR.

        Thanks

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        • renehansen
          renehansen last edited by

          Regarding Google AdWords, it counts the actual landing page that the user (bot) ends up at. So if you are redirecting from 1 page to another on your domain, that is perfectly fine. Google AdWords accounts for CTR, relevance etc. (see more here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2454010?hl=en).

          This means that the QS will be calculated using the landing page after all redirects, just remember to keep the number of redirects to a minimum due to load time for the user.

          Another thing, if you wanted to make an ad which pointed to a redirect which did not work, your ad would get disaproved. Google AdWords will surely keep you notified if your landing page is not working.

          Like Highland is saying, most often a redirect is used to track a click from AdWords, if they want to collect additional data about their campaign.

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          • Highland
            Highland last edited by

            I've found that many sites do this, primarily for tracking reasons. Typically they'll do the tracking and then bounce you to a clean URL.

            As long as the page is on the same domain and the end URL is relevant, I can't see how it would impact quality score.

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