- Starting 30 June 2022, you’ll no longer be able to create or edit ad customisers for expanded text ads as the creation of new expanded text ads will no longer be supported.
- You’ll also no longer be able to upload or edit the business data for expanded text ads.
- Existing ad customisers for expanded text ads will continue to serve until 31 May 2024.
- We strongly encourage you to transition to responsive search ads.
- Learn more about Making it easier to show the right message on search.
You’ll upload some of these sources yourself. Other sources, like phone numbers and sitelinks from your ad assets, are automated.
This article explains how to upload and view your business data sets or feeds.
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Get started: Unicode encoding supported
- Business data supports UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 (it's best to use UTF-8). The data transformation between these formats is lossless.
- Business data doesn't support UTF7, UTF1, UTF-EBCDIC, SCSU, BOCU, GB-18030, Latin 1 or ISO-8859-1.
Instructions
Upload your data file
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In your Google Ads account, click the Tools icon
.
- Click Business data.
- Click the plus button
to add your data feed.
- You can add:
- Ad customiser data. Show your ads with business data tailored to the context of a search.
- Dynamic ads feed.
- Education. Add details like areas of study and locations.
- Flights. Add details like destinations and prices.
- Hotel and rentals. Add details like locations and star ratings.
- Jobs. Add details like job titles and salaries.
- Local deals. Add details like descriptions and prices.
- Property. Add details like listing names and prices.
- Travel. Add details like destinations and prices.
- Custom. Add details like descriptions and prices.
- Page feed. Allows you to define precise web pages to target when using Dynamic Search Ads.
- Local product feed. Allows you to promote products and services available at your specific locations.
- Name your new data source.
- It’s best to use a short name without any spaces.
- Make sure that you don't re-use the name of an old data set or feed that you've removed. Google Ads can only recognise new names.
- Click Choose file and select the file that you’d like to upload. Ensure that your file is in a supported format (for example, .csv, .tsv, .xlsx). For Google Sheets uploads, ensure that the sheet is correctly shared if applicable. Keep in mind that the size limit for .csv and .tsv files is 500MB and 50MB for other file types.
- Click Apply.
.In the page menu on the left, click Upload history to view your recent uploads. Under the 'Actions' column, you can download results if the upload was successful or download errors to find what you can fix.
Note: After you've added a data feed to your campaign, you won't be able to change it to another data feed type from the same campaign.
For example, if a 'Flights' feed is already being used in a campaign, you won't be able to use the 'Hotel and rentals' feed in the same campaign. Instead, you need to create a separate campaign to use the 'Hotel and rentals' feed.
View your data feed details
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In your Google Ads account, click the Tools icon
- Click Business data.
- Click on the data source that you’d like to look at.
- You’ll see a detailed view of that data source.
- Click the columns icon
, then choose Modify columns.
- Click Performance to show statistics for how ads performed when a particular item appeared with the ad.
- Select the metrics that you want to add.
- Click Apply.
, then choose Modify columns.Delete your data feed
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In your Google Ads account, click the Tools icon
- Click Business data.
- Select the data feed that you’d like to delete with the tick box.
- Click Edit in the blue bar above.
- Select Remove.
