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Google Merchant Center Shows Eligible Badges (Automatic Promotions & Promotions)
We have long known that we can benefit from automated promotions, free shipping, sale price, price drops, etc. But it was hard to know which products had this automatic promotion enabled or not. Google has launched a new feature in Google Merchant Center that shows this data in Products > All Products > Eligible Badges Column.

Target Country Rules For Dynamic Remarketing Are About To Change In Google Ads
Starting January 17, 2022, you can no longer target countries that are not enabled in Google Merchant Center. What Changed? A merchant in Google Ads could set up dynamic remarketing campaigns for different countries simply by changing the Google Ads campaign settings. With the new requirements, Google Merchant Center country targeting is now taken into

Ouch, Google’s Shopping Algorithm Went Bananas
On Friday 12th of November 2021, Google was bidding 2 to 3 times higher on shopping ads. The algorithm bug was resolved on the 13th Saturday, November 2021. If you have encountered unusual high bids, contact Google Ads support to ask for a refund. According to Ads Liason, Google will contact you with more details.

Emmanuel Flossie Is Now A Google Ads Diamond Product Expert
After five years of contributing to the Google Ads community and helping thousands of merchants, agencies, and individuals resolve issues. Google Ads, last week, granted me Diamond status. There are only a handful of diamond experts. Among them are the original James Clemens and Moshe Avichai. Alongside the newly appointed Robert Skelton, Oscar Abad, Leandro

Google Is Piloting Ratings On Chrome
Some merchants have been selected to show reviews available in Google Merchant Center to show to users who visit your site on Chrome. Google’s fundamental goal is to ensure a safe and helpful environment on Chrome, allowing users to feel confident when shopping online. This means you will start seeing Chrome notifications displaying Google ratings

Google Merchant Center Feed Processing Never Ends
As of 2:30pm GMT+7 27th of October 2021. All feeds are being processed again. And the issues are resolved. As of the 23rd of October, all static files such as XML, Text Delimited, Google Sheets are not getting processed in Google Merchant Center. If you are using Content API, then you should not experience any

Fix your Google tag issues in Shopify [Over 10% of your pages do not have gtag.js or a Google Tag Manager tag]
The message you receive from Google Ads in your recommendations tab: Make sure you don’t miss any conversions by fixing your Google tag issues. Your Google tag (gtag.js) or Google Tag Manager tag should be on every page so that it can identify the user or click originating from the landing page URL. Since you

Google Updates Monetization Policies on Climate Change
As we all know, fake news and unreliable claims have been the mainstream on social platforms and YouTube. As a result, we advertisers, merchants, and brand conglomerates have long complained about ads showing alongside content against global scientific knowledge. The unreliable claims are topics such as fake medical cures, anti-vaccine advocacy, and now climate change

Google Manufacturer Center Voluntarily or Mandatory Product Recalls
As of September 2021, Manufacturers can now recall products voluntarily without relying on a regulatory authority to trigger an official recall. Products marked as recalled will become disapproved for all product listings on Google Shopping, Free Listings, and Buy on Google. Retailers will be alerted of the recall in Google Merchant Center. How To Enable