Category: Product Data
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Google Merchant Center to Enforce Stricter MPN Policies
Google quietly released yet another somewhat substantial change for Google Merchant Center data quality policies – this time focusing on the MPN or Manufacturers Part Number attribute.
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Google Announces its 2020 Product Data Feed Specifications Update for Merchant Center
Early this morning emails starting arriving for Google Merchant Center account owners, announcing a full round of changes to product data feed specifications for 2020.
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Surfaces Across Google Just Got Better For Apparel Retailers
Yesterday, Google Group Product Manager Denise Ho announced a revamped experience for Google Search that explicitly affects apparel and accessory retailers. The best part? You won’t be paying anything for clicks on your products!
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Google is Changing the Rules for Unique Product Identifiers
Yet another announcement from Google, and this time it is all about product feeds and unique product identifiers. Specifically though, Google will be enforcing new rules for retailers as of September 30th!
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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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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 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.
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You Can Now Set Up Your Bing Shopping Feed For Free Using Sales & Orders!
We are super excited to announce the official launch of our Bing Shopping Feed Tool. You can now extend the reach of your product advertising to an entirely new sector of shoppers searching for products online. The best part is that we’re making it super easy to get started, and it’s FREE for up to…