Submitted by Ken on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 20:11
As a PPC marketer targetting multiple geographic regions, testing your ads can be difficult since they won't show up if you're not in the designated country, region or city. For example, you might be working from the United States, but you also want to target consumers in the United Kingdom. Simply running your query on google.co.uk won't do the trick since Google doesn't rely only on the TLD, but also on your IP address to determine your location.
Luckily, there is a work-around for this problem. You can easily append parameters to the URL;