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Jun 26 2024

Feed Driven Product Ads for Grocery

With digital grocery sales on the rise (predicted to account for 20% of all grocery sales by 2026), retailers need to ensure they are keeping up. Google and Meta both offer support for product feed/catalog driven ads that not only help dri…

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Nov 15 2024

Regional Availability & Pricing (RAAP): What, Why, and When

It's a great question, because some of the RAAP functionality is indeed already baked into normal Google Merchant Center (GMC), and there's even some overlap with Local Inventory Ads (LIA). Let's dive into RAAP and see if we can figure thi…

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Oct 23 2024

Expanding RAAP: How to Bring Regional Style Ads to Channels Without Native Support

Creative Solutions for Running Location-Based Ads (e.g., “RAAP”) on Platforms Like TikTok, Pinterest, Snap, and OthersWhile platforms like Google and Meta provide native solutions for running targeted local ads through Regional Availabilit…

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Oct 23 2024

Understanding Google’s Product Listing Ads: Classic (PLA), Local (LIA), and Regional (RAAP)

How to Leverage Classic PLAs, Local Inventory Ads, and Regional Availability and Pricing to Maximize Your Reach on Google ShoppingClients use VersaFeed to publish their product data on Google through one of three primary methods, each with…

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Oct 18 2024

Launching Google Local Inventory Ads for Grocery

An essential part of launching Google Local Inventory Ads (LIA) for grocery retailers is ensuring that your landing pages meet Google's specific requirements. Whether you choose a Google-hosted option or manage your own store-specific prod…

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Oct 02 2024

Google Local Merchant Promotions for Grocery: Stand Out in Local Shopping Ads

When customers search for grocery products on Google, they see local shopping ad results, annotated to show availability at nearby stores. This makes it easy for them to compare prices across all visible shopping ads in the carousel. While…

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Jan 08 2024

Scientific A/B Testing for Products Feeds and PLAs

How often do A/B tests run only to yield inconclusive data? Especially in the data feed and PLA world, the problem is prevalent. VersaFeed's new Dynamic Experiment solution solves this problem once and for all.Our dynamic system will rotat…

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Oct 16 2023

Price Competitiveness & Best Seller Integration Strategies

VersaFeed is taking custom label strategies to the next level by integrating with Google Merchant Center’s Market Insights retail data. Both the Price Competitiveness and Best Sellers reports are currently available within the Mercha…

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Aug 08 2023

Shopping Ads Badges and Annotations Guide

We’ve aggregated the most common PLA badges and annotations for you in the graphic above to identify their official names and we’ve covered each in detail within one of our blog articles. As always, our blogs are intended to g…

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Aug 02 2023

Local Inventory Ads Badge + Annotations

Google makes it easy to take advantage of badges on Shopping ads and Free Listings promoting Local products. Consumers will see Local Shopping ads when the item they’re searching for is available nearby. Google lets you know it's a L…

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Mar 20 2023

Price Drop Badge/Annotation on Google

There are many ways Google highlights products when their prices change - specifically lower. The Sale badge and Special Offer annotation (aka Merchant Promotion) do a great job showcasing temporary price cuts on items. But there’s …

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Mar 03 2023

Supporting Customer Retention with PLA

With inflation top-of-mind for both merchants and customers, maintaining a loyal base of customers is more crucial than ever in the ecommerce space. Loyalty, however, does not mean you still won’t have to fight to keep those customer…

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Jan 23 2023

Google Hosted Local Storefront : LIA

Google has been steering advertisers for years now towards the Merchant Hosted Local Storefront, even providing them with 2 options: Basic and Full. Here, we will be covering details around the rarely talked about Google Hosted Local Store…

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Jan 18 2023

Google Merchant Promotions for Local Inventory Ads

With Google’s Local Promotions moving from beta to a full-fledged feature, merchants running Local Inventory Ads now have the option to display promotions that are redeemable either online, in store, or both. Local promotions may be…

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Oct 24 2022

Regional Availability and Pricing (RAAP) for Grocery Chains on Google Shopping

In response to a growing demand for convenient online shopping, grocery stores are rapidly adapting to increase their digital presence and expand order fulfillment options. With the introduction of Regional Availability and Pricing (RAAP)…

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Oct 26 2021

How to Set Up a Google Merchant Promotion

Check Eligibility Google Merchant Promotions are only applicable to use in certain situations. See the comprehensive list of Promotion Policies. Quick points: Coupon codes are ONLY REQUIRED for Free/Discount Shipping offers. Google doe…

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