Shortly after activating Cloudflare we started receiving notifications that our Adwords ads were being Disapproved due to
‘Destination mismatch: The final URL that you entered for your ad uses a different domain than your landing page’
The destination URLs in questions are all valid and have 100% uptime and fast page loads.
Is there any possibility that any setting in Cloudflare could stop a Google bot from reading the correct destination URL from an Adwords Ad?
Regards,
Brian
Oddly enough, I’m dealing with the same issue with three clients…all of whom use Cloudflare and have for a while and none of them have the redirects that would cause this.
Strangely though, it’s not all of the ads, only a relatively small portion of them, but I have yet to come up with a reason why.
My rep at Google is confused as well. I also spoke with someone from support on the issue who said it was because I use ad customizers and they input dynamic data into 1 path of the display URL (which is 100% allowed), and that if someone tried to visit that display URL, it would return a 404 and that was the cause.
I’m trying to put something together to avoid that issue, but honestly, it sounds like BS as a 404 wouldn’t cause a destination mismatch error, it would cause a destination not working error.
I’ve wondered if there is a possibility Cloudflare could somehow play a role in it, but haven’t been able to recreate any issues that should.