Tag Archives: E-Commerce

CSS to benefit from Google shopping changes?

Posted on October 17, 2017 by rwood

Merchants have been asking me about the potential impact of the EU ruling on Google’s position in its own results and more specifically the requirement to open them up to other Comparison Shopping Services (CSS) such as Kelkoo and Connexity. … Continue reading →

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More Brands Now Mandatory for GTIN on Google Shopping

Posted on September 4, 2017 by rwood

Google is constantly changing the status of several “This Brand requires a GTIN” messages from warnings (amber) to outright disapprovals (red). You may notice an increase in your daily error reports from us as a result of these. Whenever this … Continue reading →

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Non-Compliant Product Descriptions

Posted on November 14, 2016 by rwood

It is important to ensure as many of your products can be displayed to best effect, without issues arising from invalid and non-compliant content within your product data. E-commerce merchants should be aware that product descriptions should simply describe the … Continue reading →

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Customer Web Friendly Experience

Posted on November 10, 2016 by rwood

I have written about this before, but as “Black Friday” and the festive buying season approaches, it is worth reminding everyone of the need to make the customer experience on your site really simple and intuitive. Google recently published some … Continue reading →

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WeFlubit changes to SKU Cloud

Posted on November 3, 2016 by rwood

The marketplace WeFlubit has recently announced a change effective from 1st November. Their new name is SKU Cloud and combines their current marketplace and destination partner offerings in one place. There is no change to the consumer brand – Flubit.com. … Continue reading →

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Kelkoo Acquires Leguide – Potential Listing Impact

Posted on October 21, 2016 by rwood

Clients should be aware that Kelkoo has now acquired LeGuide group, the European Shopping Group comprising of LeGuide, Ciao and Dooyoo. As a result the consolidated group becomes the only ecommerce platform with presence in 20 countries worldwide, soon to … Continue reading →

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Google Small Image Warning

Posted on June 22, 2016 by rwood

Merchants need to be aware of a new warning within Google Merchant centres for small images.

From September 1st specific images will need to have a minimum size in order to be loaded or products will become disapproved on Google. Continue reading →

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GTIN verification update

Posted on June 14, 2016 by rwood

We have been working with GS1’s guidance on approved GTIN prefixes and combinations to improve our ability to determine bad values which Google and other engines will disapprove. This has extended our existing GTIN validation process, and we have now … Continue reading →

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Google GTIN Update 2

Posted on May 13, 2016 by rwood

As from Monday 16th May Google’s new GTIN requirement will come into force. If you haven’t read previous blogs (or received an email from Google) about the change it means all merchants must supply GTINs for all products where they … Continue reading →

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New Channel Opportunity – Solute Ad Network

Posted on April 26, 2016 by rwood

We are pleased to announce a new channel opportunity with Solute Ad Network.

Solute Ad Network states that it is ‘one of Germany‘s most successful price comparison websites’. ‘The Solute Ad Network is made up of websites and technology which have partnered with Solute in order to monetize their content. We are offering placement on multiple premium channels in the following methods:’ Continue reading →

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