Why do my ads show in wrong countries even after targeting settings are correct?

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Hii everyone, I’m facing an issue with Google Ads. I have set the country targeting correctly, but still my ads are showing in other countries.
Not sure why this is happening. Is it a setting issue, location option, or something else?
Has anyone faced this before or knows how to fix it?
 
I faced the same issue earlier. It was caused by Google showing ads outside my target area due to settings. I fixed it by checking location targeting and removing other countries, and it stopped after that.
 
also check if your IP exclusions and language settings are loose, sometimes google still pushes ads outside if signals are mixed or audience expansion is on.
 
sometime it may take some time to update with everything in project maybe.
Maybe it is not instantly. it gets into there system
 
This usually happens because “Presence or interest” is selected, not “Presence only.”
 
I faced this same issue, this happened with me after editing my campaign settings. google take some time to relearn targeting nd during that time ads showed wider than normal.
 
Could also be vpn/proxy traffic yeah
Especially if you see random clicks/impressions from tier3 countries, Google location detection isn’t perfect at all
 
Sometimes this happens because of audience expansion, wrong location presence settings, VPN traffic or google matching users based on interest of exact location.
 
Sometimes ads go to wrong countries because people use VPNs or platform targeting is not 100% accurate. It happens quite often now.
 
Hii everyone, I’m facing an issue with Google Ads. I have set the country targeting correctly, but still my ads are showing in other countries.
Not sure why this is happening. Is it a setting issue, location option, or something else?
Has anyone faced this before or knows how to fix it?
You must click this point when setting up your ad.


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