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One Google Ads account for several stores, or one each?
One per store, under a single manager account.
The short answer
One per store, under a single manager account.
Separate accounts keep conversion data, budgets and policy risk isolated. If one store gets flagged, the others keep running.
A manager (MCC) account gives you one login and consolidated billing without merging the data.
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