The check · Google Ads
Paying for people who aren't in your area
Location targeting set to anyone who shows 'interest' in your area rather than people actually in it: Google's default, and the reason for a lot of foreign clicks. Admiral can fix it: restricts targeting to presence. You approve it in one click, and undoing it is one click too.
3-day trial · No card required · The audit changes nothing in your account
Reads and writes
- Google Ads
- Meta
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
Built Admiral · runs the audits on real accounts
What it looks for
Your account’s own reports, read for you.
What the signal is
Location targeting set to anyone who shows 'interest' in your area rather than people actually in it: Google's default, and the reason for a lot of foreign clicks. It runs against your account on every sync, using the account’s own history, so a finding is priced in your currency from what it actually cost, never from a benchmark.
The fix, and the undo
Admiral can fix it: restricts targeting to presence. The receipt records who approved it and when; undoing it is one click.
The words it uses
Location targeting: presence or interest: each one in the glossary, in plain words, with what it costs when it goes wrong.
Run this check on your account.
Connect Google Ads and this check runs on every sync. Findings show the evidence; the fix is one click, recorded, and undoable where it can be reversed.
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