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Starting in June 2022, Google now allows merchants in New Zealand to promote the sale of approved non-prescription drugs (over the counter). However, you need to be certified and registered with the Ministry of Health. Reference: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/12146422 More details: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150151#newzealand

I am receiving many clients suspended in Google Merchant Center due to Malicious software starting yesterday (14th June 2022). They seem to be using an app (which one I don’t know yet) that is sourcing from asaplabs.io (do not navigate to this link) Not sure if its anything to do with ASAPLab (different URL) When checking …

[asaplabs.io] Suspended Shopify Account Due To Malicious Software In Google Merchant Center Read More »

Starting from June 2022, Google has announced the requirement to state the maximum speeds an electric bike is capable of. The previous policy requirement only allowing eBikes with a maximum top speed of 15.5 mph or 25km/h is still in effect. However, now you must state the max capable speed on the product landing page and in …

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I want to thank everyone in the Google and Product Expert team. We are many great people, all to help each other and anyone who has a question. It has already been a great experience and ready for many years. I started with the Google Ads community way back in 2016. Only a handful of …

Emmanuel Flossie Received Google Product Experts Education Award 2021 Read More »

Google has now released new attributes for shopping ads, allowing you to add a short title. Short titles are currently used in browsy contexts such as discovery, shopping ads, or Gmail. You might have already noticed that the full title you use always gets cut off after x number of characters. You can make the …

Google Shopping Short Titles Available In Google Merchant Center Read More »

As of the 24th of January 2022, Google Ads support is aware of the issue that location bid adjustments are not visible in your Text or Shopping campaigns. The technical team is actively working on fixing the problem, and it should be resolved within 48 hours. When you check your shopping or text campaign’s locations …

[BUG] Location Bid Adjustments Not Visible in Google Ads Campaigns Read More »

You can now track conversions with the newly released auto-tagging feature in Google Merchant Center for free shopping listings. Before this release, there was no option to track conversions. Now using auto-tagging, you can use Google Analytics to track conversions from free listings and free local listings. Testing my clients today, I noticed the feature …

Conversion Tracking For Google Shopping Free Listing Are Now Supported Read More »

Starting in 1Starting on 10th February 2022, standard shopping campaigns will no longer show on Gmail, Discover, and YouTube. However, you can still enable it by enabling the Search Partner Network. Currently, the search partner network and Youtube, Gmail, and Discover are separated. Why the change? Most likely, Google found that many people disabled YouTube, …

Standard Shopping Campaign Search Partner Network Is About To Change Read More »

Today, I randomly checked up my client’s ads to identify specific information. And noticed an interesting new feature, where Google prepends brand values in your titles. However, when you have already added your brand name in the title, Google will not prepend this again. Why Is This Important? It’s essential to know and understand that …

Google Shopping Automatically Prepend Brand Names In Titles Read More »

You can now exclude app category placements on the display network and YouTube in smart shopping campaigns. However, you can not exclude websites, youtube channels, or youtube videos, and you can not exclude apps. Only app categories. In Google Ads, click on your smart shopping campaign > content > click on the edit icon. Now …

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