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How many ads should be in an ad group?
Two or three responsive search ads, with genuinely different angles.
The short answer
Two or three responsive search ads, with genuinely different angles.
More than that splits impressions so thinly that none of them accumulates enough data to judge.
Different angles matters more than different wording — price, shipping, range, guarantee. Three variations of the same sentence teach you nothing.
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