I wanted to write about this because of Spark Toro’s article by Rand Fishkin. Rand wrote an article about the growth in Google search despite new tools such as ChatGPT. What surprised me in this article is the decline of Google shopping, with 12.07% less traffic in 2024 compared to 2023. Rand’s analysis is based […]
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If you’ve uploaded product images to Google Merchant Center and noticed that they appear with a black background instead of a transparent one, you’re not alone. This issue can be frustrating, but it has a straightforward explanation and several solutions. Why Do Images Suddenly Have a Black Background? When you save an image as a
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Google has rolled out an update to the excluded destination attribute in Google Merchant Center, allowing advertisers greater control over where their products appear. This update introduces two new exclusion options for YouTube: YouTube Affiliate and YouTube Merchandise. What is the Excluded Destination Attribute? The excluded destination attribute enables advertisers to prevent their products from
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If you’re running an eCommerce store on Shopify, displaying the Google Merchant Center Store Badge can help build trust with potential customers and improve your store’s credibility. This badge is available to merchants who meet Google’s quality requirements, and once enabled, it appears on free listings and shopping ads. In this guide, we’ll walk you
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A Major Update to the Certification Attribute Google has introduced an update to the certification attribute within the Google Merchant Center, streamlining the process of submitting Energy Efficiency and CO2 data for products. Previously, merchants had to manually retrieve this information from external databases, which was time-consuming and inefficient, particularly for businesses with large inventories.
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After nearly six months of frustration, Google has finally restored a crucial feature to Google Merchant Center—filtered product downloads. Previously, merchants could not download only a specific selection of products based on applied filters when using Google Merchant Center Next. Instead, they were forced to export their entire product feed and manually sift through the
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A new updated course is available at https://merchantcodex.com/course/website-optimization-for-google-shopping/ Here is a guide on how to add the correct user-agents in your robots.txt file in Shopify, for the purpose of Google Merchant Center. First login to Shopify and edit your theme code. If you already have added a robots.txt or you see a robots.txt file in
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As you may know already, there is no option for you to remove manually edited content in bulk within Google Merchant Center. But there is a way. How? To remove the manual edits for all products, go to the cog icon > data sources The first thing we want to do is take a screenshot
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If you have deleted your Google Merchant Center account, you have the option to recover your account within 30 days. If you were the admin of the account, you can fill out this form: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/howto2 What If It Was Longer Than 30 Days? In that case, you can fill out the form above, but most
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A while ago, Google added a new attribute for adding videos, namely, video_link. Important This is strange, but Google Merchant Center states in the documentation that it does not support YouTube videos; however, Google Manufacturer Center does support YouTube videos. But if we look at shopping results, as shown in the screenshot below, YouTube videos
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