shopping_ads_excluded_country: Definition

Use the shopping_ads_excluded_country attribute to control the different countries where your Shopping ads products are advertised. You can use this attribute when you need to override the additional country settings that you set up in your primary feed.

Depending on your primary country of sale, and the language in which your product data is submitted, some of your products may be readily available to show in multiple countries. If you want your product to appear in only certain countries but not in others, use the  shopping_ads_excluded_country attribute.  You can use this attribute to override the additional country settings that you set up in your primary feed.

When to use

Optional for each product

Only available for Shopping ads

Let’s say you select Germany as your primary country of sale, and Austria and Switzerland as additional countries of sale when you submit your product data in Merchant Center. If you later decide that you don’t want to advertise a particular product in Austria and Switzerland, you can use this attribute to stop the product from showing there, while still allowing it to show in Germany.

Note: The primary country of sale is selected when you submit your product data feed in Merchant Center.

Format

Follow these formatting guidelines to make sure we understand the data you're submitting. 

Type	String (Unicode characters)
Limits	2 characters. Must be an ISO-3166-1 Alpha 2 country code
Repeated field	Up to 100 times

File format	Example value
Text feeds	CH, AT
XML feeds	<g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>CH</g:shopping_ads_excluded_country> <g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>AT</g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>

To format your data for Content API, see the Content API for Shopping.

• Learn more about the format requirements for repeated and/or group attributes in text feeds
• Learn more about the format requirements for repeated and/or group attributes in Google sheets

Guidelines

Follow these guidelines to make sure you submit high-quality data for your products.

Minimum requirements

These are the requirements you'll need to meet to show ads for your product. If you don't follow these requirements, your product might show in countries where you do not intend it to show.

• Only use supported ISO-3166-2 Alpha 2 country codes.

Examples

Repeated Fields

Text

To submit multiple countries that you would like to exclude, provide the attribute multiple times, once for each country (recommended).

For example:

Product	Skater dress - black
title	Millie Wray Skater Dress
shopping_ads_excluded_country	AT
shopping_ads_excluded_country	CH

 

You can also separate each destination with a comma ( , ) :

AT, CH

XML

To submit multiple additional countries to include for an XML feed, provide a separate attribute for each included destination:

<g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>AT</g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>
<g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>CH</g:</g:shopping_ads_excluded_country>