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Google Merchant Center Mismatched [price] (page crawl)
Emmanuel Flossie

Google Merchant Center Mismatched [price] (page crawl)

Reason First, let’s understand why you are getting price match issues. Google Merchant Center has a feature that allows Google’s bot to check your product landing page and update the product listing information if the price info is different from the landing page vs. the data feed. This is especially useful if you change the

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Stop Affiliates From Advertising On Google Shopping
Emmanuel Flossie

Stop Affiliates From Advertising On Google Shopping

Yes, finally, some good news. Google is preparing to allow manufacturers to prevent affiliates from advertising their products on Google Shopping. As you might know, affiliates can also advertise your products on Google Shopping. This can have a positive or negative effect. Google now allows you to block them for those that see a significant

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Emmanuel Flossie

Migrating Feeds In Google Merchant Center

At certain points you might want to change data feeds URLs or data feed method. A common and understandable concern is downtime or making an irreversible mistake. Please read the full article before making any changes to your account, as it covers different aspects of feed migration that you need to fully understand before commencing the

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Google Shopping Products Show Pending Status
Emmanuel Flossie

Google Shopping Products Show Pending Status

Having your Google Shopping products in pending status for an extended amount of time, may indicate issues with the submitted data feed or account settings. In this article I will provide a checklist to help you find the issue. Main Checklist 1) Login to Google Merchant Center (GMC) and go to Products > Feeds >

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How To Change Google Shopping Display Store Name
Emmanuel Flossie

How To Change Google Shopping Display Store Name

In this article I also explain what you should do if you have an invalid store name in Google Merchant Center. In your Google Shopping ads, you can see the image, price, title, description, reviews and also the business name. To change the store name, login to Google Merchant Center Classic and go to the

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Verify & Claim Shopify Website In Google Merchant Center
Emmanuel Flossie

Verify & Claim Shopify Website In Google Merchant Center

A comprehensive guide to verifying and claiming your Shopify website in Google Merchant Center. Please be aware that this guide is specifically tailored for those utilizing custom domain Shopify websites (not an example.myshopify.com website). If your website uses the default format (e.g., example.myshopify.com), it is ineligible for verification with Google Merchant Center. Please complete the

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GMC File-PreProcessing-Failure-What-You-Should-Do
Emmanuel Flossie

GMC – File Pre-Processing :Failure [What You Should Do]

Update : As of 7th March 2018, this is all resolved.   As of 6th March 2018, if you try to fetch a new copy or submit a new data feed to Google Merchant, you will see an error saying File pre processing:failure. Don’t Worry! This is only a visual message, all products if correctly submitted

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How To Download Google Adwords Table Data
Emmanuel Flossie

How To Download Google Adwords Table Data

You can download the contents of your table data from any campaign, ad group, product group, search terms and many more areas. First login to Googel Adwords and choose from the tabs below the new UI or the old one. Now add all the columns you want to download. Using the new UI go to

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Google-Showcase-Ads-Setup-Guide-&-How-It-Works
Emmanuel Flossie

Google Showcase Ads, Setup Guide & How It Works

In this article, I will delve into the new Google showcase ads. This article will cover both what it is, the benefits, and how to set it up. Benefits The benefits of using showcase ads are : Showcase ads are triggered when a generic search term is searched, as the customer is unsure of what

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Emmanuel Flossie

How To Delete a Google Merchant Feed Rule

Once you have created a feed rule or a draft rule in Google Merchant, you can always delete them in your data feed rules tab. Step 1 Login to Google Merchant Step 2 Select your feed Go to Products > Feeds > Click on your feed Step 3 Select your feed rule Go to Rules

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Google Changes EU Playing Field In General Search Results
Emmanuel Flossie

Google Changes EU Playing Field In General Search Results.

As of yesterday the 27th September 2017, Google has dramatically changed the way shopping ads are displayed in general search results, in other words the absolute top position are now auctioned equally among all marketplaces. What does it mean? From now on other marketplaces such as google, ebay, kelkoo, shopzilla etc… will be labelled in

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