Promotion extensions can add more value to your Search Network text ads by highlighting your sales and promotions for people that are searching for the best deals your business has to offer. This article explains the benefits of promotion extensions and how they show with your search ads. For setup instructions, go to Use promotion extensions.

How they show

Promotion extensions show below your ad in an easy to read format that catches the eye of your potential customers.

The special occasion you select, for example,  "Back-to-school” or “Mother’s Day” appears as a bold label next to your promotional text. 

The extension also displays up to 2 lines of text that includes details of your promotion. Potential customers can easily spot the sale in your promotion extensions as they stand out from the main ad text. When someone clicks or taps on the extension, they go directly to the special offer that interests them on your site. 

Promotion extensions can show your offers in various formats—mobile and desktop—on the Search Network. They appear in ads at the top and bottom of Google search results.

When to use

Use promotion extensions to attract customers that are searching for special offers and sales relevant to your business. Holidays or special events such as Back-to-school sales and Black Friday are great times to use promotion extensions.

Use promotion extensions to include monetary or percent discounts for your products or services. You can also include any requirements needed for your promotion such as coupon or discount codes for a specified time period or a spending limit.

Benefits

Here are a few reasons to consider adding promotion extensions to your ads:

• Update easily: Select from a list of pre-populated occasions. You don't need to make new text ads to keep them up-to-date for sales and special offers that occur at different times.
• Edit your extension without losing data: Edit your promotion extension without resetting its performance statistics.
• Mobile preference: Choose if you prefer to show your promotion extensions on mobile devices.
• Flexible scheduling: Choose to show your promotion extensions within the date of the occasion or specify dates, days of week, or times of day your promotion extensions are eligible to show.

Account levels

You can add promotion extensions at the account, campaign, or ad group level. If you create promotion extensions at different levels (account, campaign, or ad group), the most specific will be used. So when you add promotion extensions to an ad group, those extensions show instead of your campaign- or account-level call extensions. Likewise, campaign-level extensions override account-level extensions.

Cost of clicks

Promotion extensions are free to add—you’re only charged for clicks from people viewing your ad. The cost of a click on a promotion extension equals the cost of a click on the headline in the same ad. In other words, you'll be charged the same amount no matter which link in the same ad someone clicks. Promotion extensions offer more opportunities for your customers to click on and within your ad, but you won’t be charged for more than two clicks per ad impression. However, if someone quickly clicks on more than one link while viewing an ad, this gets treated as a second click and you won't get charged.

Occasions for your promotions

See which occasions and dates are available for promotion extensions:

Occasions	Start date	End date
New Year's	Dec 1	Feb 28
Boxing Day	Dec 15	Jan 15
Epiphany	Dec 15	Jan 31
Chinese New Year	Jan 15	Mar 1
Valentine's Day	Jan 15	Feb 28
Carnival	Feb 1	Mar 31
Holi	Feb 1	Mar 31
Women's day	Feb 15	Mar 31
Passover	Feb 15	May 1
Easter	Mar 1	Apr 30
Parent's Day	Apr 15	Aug 1
Labor Day*	Apr 15	Sep 15
Rosh Hashanah	Aug 15	Nov 1
Diwali	Sep 1	Dec 1
Navratri	Sep 15	Oct 31
Halloween**	Oct 1	Nov 15
Singles Day	Oct 15	Nov 30
Black Friday	Oct 15	Dec 15
Cyber Monday	Oct 15	Dec 15
Christmas	Nov 1	Jan 15
St. Nicholas Day	Nov 1	Dec 31
Hanukkah	Nov 15	Jan 31
Back to school	Any	Any
Mother's day	Any	Any
Father's Day	Any	Any
Independence Day	Any	Any
National Day	Any	Any
End of Season	Any	Any
Winter Sale	Any	Any
Summer Sale	Any	Any
Fall Sale	Any	Any
Spring Sale	Any	Any
Ramadan	Any	Any
Eid al-Fitr	Any	Any
Eid Al Adha	Any	Any

*Not available in Dutch, Norwegian, Hebrew and Japanese languages
**Not available in Malay, Polish and Hebrew languages

Available in Japanese 

Occasion	Start date	End date
Year-end Gift	Nov 1	Dec 31

 

Available in Thai 

Occasion	Start date	End date
Songkran	Mar 15	May 1

* Nguồn: Google