Create and manage location groups

Location groups can help you more easily set up your campaign targeting by allowing you to create groups of your business’s physical locations. These groups can then be used in your Local campaigns to specify what store locations you want to target.

Requirements

Google Ads requires that you have access to locations before you can create location groups. To get locations, you need a Google My Business account linked to your Google Ads account.

Selecting a list of locations

Google Ads supports two methods for populating your location groups.

Curate a set of locations

  1. Log in to Google Ads.
  2. Click the tool  icon.
  3. Under “Shared library”, select Location groups.
  4. Click the plus icon .
    • If you don’t have a linked Google My Business account, click the prompt to Link GMB account and follow the setup flow to link a GMB account to Google Ads.
  5. Insert a name for your location group.
  6. If the radio button next to Pick your locations isn’t selected, click it.
  7. Use the search bar to search locations and click the check box next to the locations you want to include in this location group.
    • Optional: You can click the X button next to your picked locations to remove them from the list, or Clear all to empty the list.
  8. Click Save.
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Set a label filter

  1. Log in to Google Ads.
  2. Click the tool icon.
  3. Under “Shared library”, select Location groups.
  4. Click the plus button.
    • If you don’t have a linked Google My Business account, click the prompt to Link GMB account and follow the setup flow to link a GMB account to Google Ads.
  5. Insert a name for your location group.
  6. Click the radio button next to Filter by label.
  7. Insert the name of your label next to “Label is”.
  8. All locations for the label are now included in this location group.
    • If you add or remove locations from this label in the future, the same change will happen to this location group.
  9. Click Save.

Managing location groups

  1. Log in to Google Ads.
  2. Click the tool icon.
  3. Under “Shared library”, select Location groups.
  4. Click the name of the location group to view it.
    • Optional: If any of your group’s locations have been disapproved, the location’s status will read “disapproved” and the reason for the disapproval will show under the status. You can click on either text to view why the location has been disapproved. You can then click Read the policy to learn more or Edit in Google My Business to fix the issue.
  5. Click the name of your location group.
  6. You can now edit your locations list on the right either:
    • Removing the locations by checking the box next to those locations and selecting Remove from the blue belt that appears.
    • Add new locations by clicking the plus icon to curate or use labels to set new locations.
  7. Click Save to apply your changes.
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