Google will be updating its Merchant Center policy to allow ads for electric bikes that go up to 28 mph. This is an increase from the max speed of 15.5 mph from May 2022. This new policy is effective as of this month, March 2023. Go to...

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Google has updated the user agent for the AdsBot Mobile Web Android crawler. If you hard-coded this bot for any purposes on your site, you will want to update your code. Go to Source Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) Blog Name: Search Engine Roundtable A well-rounded view on search engines and...

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Google Ads announced that Performance Max for travel goals will be available globally over the next few weeks. Performance Max for travel goals helps hotels create ads in multiple formats and in one campaign reach more travelers across Google properties. Go to Source Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) Blog Name:...

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Google announced yesterday that Google Local Service Ads now supports 70 service types across five new categories. The categories include education, people care, pet care, wellness and health care. Go to Source Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) Blog Name: Search Engine Roundtable A well-rounded view on search engines and search engine...

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Google announced it is testing a new design to help improve the workflow of advertisers in the Google Ads console. Google said it is "testing new designs to improve how the product is organized and make things easier to find'"while continuing to provide the same tools...

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Google Ads is updating its Malicious or unwanted software policy on May 9, 2023. The policy will be split into three policies, Malicious software, Compromised sites, and Unwanted software. Go to Source Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) Blog Name: Search Engine Roundtable A well-rounded view on search engines and search...

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Google Ads now supports automatically created assets, and the new customer acquisition goal is fully live. But also, in March, the "Search Interest" targeting and "Presence or Interest" exclusion will no longer be available in Google Ads. Go to Source Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) Blog Name: Search Engine Roundtable A...

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Google Ads announced four new features coming soon to Performance Max, including campaign-level brand exclusions, page feeds, video creation tools and more reporting. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liason, said on Twitter, "you likely saw account-level negative keywords started rolling out next month for brand suitability...

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Last week we had reported that Google Ads campaigns were seeing mass disapproval and suspensions but now I am seeing new reports of Google Ad account suspensions across multiple verticals. I am not sure if this is a new thing or just something Google Ads...

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A week ago, Thanos Bertes posted on LinkedIn, which I found via Mike Ryan on Twitter, that Google Ads disabled the ability in campaign settings to easily opt out of your campaigns being also shown in the Google Search Partner network and the Google Display Network. Go...

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