Category: Product Data Feeds
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New Google Merchant Center Shipping Requirements for Select Countries
As of July 31st, 2019, retailers with country of sale set to Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, or Poland will be required to submit accurate shipping rates for their product feeds in Google Merchant Center. Rates can be applied using the general account-level Shipping settings in Merchant Center or sent directly in the feed using the shipping attribute.
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Google Product Category Now Only Optional in Google Shopping
The first of 2019’s Google Product Feed Specifications updates is now official! Emails have just been received – Google Product Category has now been made optional for ALL PRODUCT TYPES. Changes will take effect starting March 27th, 2019.
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Google Adds Organic Listings for Merchant Center Feeds
Yesterday, Google officially announced three major “upgrades” to three of its core products: Merchant Center, Search Console, and Manufacturer Center. The add-ons to Merchant Center and Search Console are especially exciting for retailers as Google has expanded the capabilities of search platform to aid merchants in reaching more shoppers online.
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Google Expands GTIN Enforcement Criteria in Merchant Center
A notice has gone out to all Merchant Center account owners regarding Google expanding the GTIN enforcement criteria when sending a product feed. Specifically, this notice is in regards to a Merchant Center warning for products labeled ‘GTIN not related to brand’.
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We’ve Partnered With PriceWaiter®
We are super excited to announce that we have partnered with PriceWaiter® to give retailers the ability to use their existing product feeds to drive new customers and orders that originate from all over the internet, including from other online stores, and even on Amazon. Why is that great? Because you can field that offer/intent…
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Sales & Orders Named the 2018 Premier Partner Award Winner in Shopping Innovation (Americas)
On October 25th, 2018, Google Premier Partners from all parts of the Americas (including Canada, US, South America) gathered together in New York City to honor finalists and name winners for the 2018 Premier Partner Awards. We here at Sales & Orders were honored as finalists in the Shopping Innovation category in mid-September of 2018.
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Finalists Announced in the 2018 Google Premier Partner Awards
As of earlier today, finalists in all categories for this year’s Google Premier Partner Awards were announced and published at: https://premierpartnerawards.withgoogle.com/en/finalists First, a big congratulations to all finalists in all categories. And yes, if you checked that list, Sales & Orders is one of 7 finalists in the Shopping Innovation category!
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Check Out The New Google Merchant Center Diagnostics
We’re starting to see Google’s latest overhaul of Merchant Center and we are really liking the new look and feel of it. The change was made to the Feed Diagnostics section. Google not only cleaned up the aesthetics, but they also added a lot more ease to filtering (among a few other “upgrades”).
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Google Shopping in the EU: What You Need to Know
It was the major talk of the town for a few months this year: The EU’s incredible anti-trust case against Google, but more specifically how Google had to alter Google Shopping in the European market altogether. (You can read the exact details outlined in a memo released by the European Commission here.) The bare bones…
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Google Product Feed Specifications Update for 2018
Google has announced this years updates to Product Feed Specifications! We see these every year as Google continues to seek to improve the Shopping experience for both consumers and retailers alike. This years updates follow a bit of a theme in that certain requirements and how products may be disapproved are being relaxed.