Google Merchant Center now shows relative visibility, page overlap rate and higher position rate metrics

The new Competitive visibility report can help merchants get a more defined view of their reach across Shopping ads and free listings, who their competitors are and how visible their offers are compared to their competitors.

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Soapbox: Why I’m so glad Google ended our relationship with Average Position

It was not a reliable indicator of how well ads were positioned and even more important, we shouldn’t rely on a single metric to make decisions anyway.

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Google’s next chapter for metrics to focus on clarity once ‘average position’ is removed

Fred Vallaeys explains why advertisers need to rethink bidding strategies and position metrics now that Google has announced it will sunset one of its oldest metrics later this year.

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