Content material API for Procuring and Google Adverts API up to date for nation focusing on

Updates to the nation focusing on for purchasing merchandise, with the introduction of the feedLabel subject, have begun.

Current updates to the API. Final month we introduced that Google was eradicating the nation focusing on necessities had been being eliminated and changed with a brand new feedLabel subject. At the moment Google introduced updates to these modifications together with:

For Google Adverts

• Any Google Adverts account can set the feed_label subject in ShoppingSetting for Procuring and Efficiency Max campaigns. You possibly can set feed_label within the Google Adverts UI and the Google Adverts API.

For Service provider middle

• As of September 14th, 2022 we‘ve began the gradual rollout of feed labels within the Service provider Middle UI. When this characteristic is enabled within the UI, retailers will be capable to create a brand new feed with feed label set to any legitimate string. 

Within the Content material API:

• Merchandise which have solely feedLabel, and never targetCountry, in the event that they had been added within the Service provider Middle UI.
• Merchandise with feed labels that aren’t two-letter nation codes.

API habits abstract. Moreover, the next is a clarification from Google concerning the present API habits for feedLabel:

• Insertion: You possibly can solely name Merchandise.insert on merchandise with an identical feedLabel and targetCountry. Presently, Merchandise.insert may return an error when you don’t present an identical targetCountry. This habits hasn’t modified when you proceed to make use of solely targetCountry.
• Focusing on: In the event you set feedLabel to a sound 2-letter CLDR territory code, you will need to nonetheless set the transport attribute of the merchandise useful resource to the identical nation with the intention to goal that nation. For instance, when you set a brand new feedLabel to “US”, you will need to additionally set the nation subject within the transport attribute to “US”. In the event you don’t set each fields, the product may not be eligible to serve in that nation. You possibly can configure focusing on for a whole feed within the Service provider Middle UI.
• Get/Record: Once you use Merchandise.checklist or Merchandise.get, you may see merchandise that solely have feedLabel (and never targetCountry) set in the event that they had been added within the Service provider Middle UI.
• Product IDs: As soon as a feedLabel is about for a product it turns into a part of the product Id. This implies you may’t modify the feedLabel for that product (that is just like how language works). In the event you want to change the feedLabel you will have to create a brand new product with a unique product Id.

Coming subsequent. Google says that when the rollout of feed labels is full, they’ll settle for Merchandise.insert calls with feedLabel set to any string. targetCountry can be non-compulsory.

For datafeeds, the datafeeds useful resource can be up to date to incorporate feedLabel within the Content material API for Procuring.

Dig deeper. You possibly can learn the total announcement from Google right here.

Why we care. In the event you’re a developer and also you’re utilizing APIs for content material or purchasing campaigns, you’ll not need to set a goal nation, however as an alternative use the feedLabel instead. You possibly can opt-in or out of those options,

About The Writer

Nicole Farley is an editor for Search Engine Land overlaying all issues PPC. Along with being a Marine Corps veteran, she has an in depth background in digital advertising, an MBA and a penchant for true crime, podcasts, journey, and snacks.