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Google Ads Editor Redesign In Version 2.1

Google has released Google Ads Editor version 2.1 that comes with a new look that is more colorful. The redesign seems way more enjoyable to look at and use than the current version. This was confirmed by Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison on Twitter who said version 2.1 is now out.
Here is the redesign first spotted by Boris Beceric on Twitter who wrote “Google Ads Editor just got a major upgrade.” He shared this screenshot of the new look:
Ginny explained you can open this new page in the Ads Editor by going to Settings. There you can now choose to open Google Ads Editor on the Overview page, the Campaigns table or the view that was showing the last time you closed Editor. This screenshot above is the new overview page.
Version 2.0 of Google Ads Editor was released in March.
What else is new with 2.1?
Overview recommendation cards
New overview cards are now available for:
- Top recommendations
- Asset performance
- Asset group status
Table header recommendations
Editor now shows a list of recommendations applicable to the currently viewed item type in the toolbar above the main table, so that these recommendations are featured even more prominently.
Primary Display Status
The Primary Display Status (PDS) shows more information for campaigns. For example, it now includes reasons why a campaign may not be serving.
Recommendations
Added support has been added for more recommendation types, including:
- Create a Local campaign
- Set a target ROAS to capture upcoming traffic increases
- Set a target CPA
- Upgrade your Local campaigns to Performance Max
- Use Display Expansion
Warning dialogue for cross-account copy and paste
Editor supports copying items in one account and then pasting them into another. However, it can’t duplicate certain information tied to a particular account. When the copied items contain references to account-specific data and you paste these into another account, Editor will drop that data and the resulting copy will be incomplete.
Editor now shows a detailed warning listing all data types that would be dropped when the user initiates a cross-account paste operation.
Validate aligned budget or bid strategy
To prevent the deletion of an aligned shared budget, Editor now shows an error when a campaign is using a shared budget but not its associated portfolio bid strategy, or vice versa.
In the budget editing dialog, Editor now shows the name of the associated strategy when an aligned budget is chosen. In the bidding dialog, it now shows the name of the associated budget when an aligned strategy is chosen.
Video-Drive conversions campaigns with shopping
Editor now supports the shopping setting (Product Feed) and product groups for “Video-Drive conversions” campaigns.
Final URL expansion
Added support for “Final URL expansion” setting in Performance Max campaigns.
Initial view on start-up
Editor now allows you to specify one of the following views when a new window opens:
- Overview
- Campaigns
- The view shown when Editor was previously closed
Global offers
In the shopping settings for Shopping and Performance Max campaigns, you can now choose to:
- Make the country of sale optional (you can allow it to be empty or be cleared if it’s not empty)
- Include support for an optional feed label
Lead form: custom questions, age question
- In lead form extensions, Editor now supports custom (free-form text) questions, rather than limiting to a predefined set of questions.
- Editor now allows any age between 18 and 65 for the “Are you over X years of age?” question. Previously, this was limited to 3 options: 18, 21, and 25.
Lead form extensions at account level
Editor now allows attaching lead form extensions at the account level, and disabling them at the campaign level. Previously, they could only be attached at the campaign level.
Budget Explorer
Editor now provides 3 possible budgets when making suggestions in the edit pane, including potential stats improvements. If a campaign or shared budget has a budget-raising recommendation associated with it, the budget editing dialog will now show 3 pre-computed budget points with stats and will automatically compute stats for a manually entered budget.
Deprecated features
Remove deprecated recommendation
“Include Display Network” option is no longer available for standard Shopping campaigns. It’s always set to “Disabled”.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.
Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.
You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.
To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.
Happy Chanukah, everyone!
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.
This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:
Here are some more screenshots:
Here is test and without test window for same query. pic.twitter.com/n9cYWBOsro
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 20, 2023
Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:
In continuation from the test from October, Google is now testing out a new Google Pay label associated with organic results. Last month, Google was testing Pay Accepted text, with this month changing it to Pay encrypted checkout. More details: https://t.co/MvFNoPmMDR pic.twitter.com/WDVVc4RbTO
— SERPs Up 🌊 (@SERPalerts) November 30, 2023
I tried to replicate this but I came up short.
This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.
Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”
It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.
Here are screenshots Glenn shared:
Have you noticed this in your Discover feed?
Forum discussion at X.
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