Goodbye Merchant Center, hello Merchant Center Next. Today at Google Marketing Live, Google officially unveiled a new, simplified version of Merchant Center, called Merchant Center Next. More than just the look and feel of Merchant Center Next will change. For example, products can be automatically populated from a merchant’s website. Why we care. This new … Read more
Google has posted that the Google Merchant Center feeds have issues. The notice is posted here and reads, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Feeds. We will provide more information shortly.” The issue started yesterday, May 3rd at 7:16 am ET and has not yet been resolved (at least when I wrote this). I … Read more
Google has documented new return policy information in the product structured data help section specific for merchant listings. This addition came on the same day that Google began showing shipping and return information in its search results. What is new. Google posted a new returns section to the structured data type definitions within the product … Read more
Google is looking into an issue in Merchant Center where some advertisers may see a “Circumventing systems” message in their ads. What’s going on. The glitch was first noticed and posted to Twitter by @ruthiebos. Hi @adsliaison , I wonder could you advise if there is a glitch at the moment with Google ads regarding … Read more
It’s an unexpected battlefield. Schema.org is a mutual effort amongst search engines to create a code meant to deliver essential information about a webpage in the most succinct and direct manner possible. It’s reasonable to expect structured data that works for Google Search should work for Product Listing Ads (PLAs) in Google Merchant, right? We … Read more
Google has updated some of the reporting within Google Search Console to break out the differences between Merchant listings and Product snippets. You can see the difference in performance between how your search results do between Merchant listings and Product snippets now in Search Console. This was updated from the original Merchant listing Search Console … Read more
Google announced an update to search console that provides merchants with the power to accurately gauge the search performance of their product listings and product snippets. Search console has two new ways to see the SEO impact in the SERPs, providing impression and click data from the two different search appearances. Screenshot by Google, modified … Read more
Google has broken out the merchant listings and product snippet reporting into two unique appearances that you can filter on within the performance reports in Google Search Console. Google also broke these out in the Merchant listings and product snippet reports, that it launched last September. What is new. Google said, “we are adding the … Read more
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