Tag Archives: google shopping feed

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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Clothing & Accessories Product Attributes

Posted on April 19, 2017 by rwood

As our clients will be aware Feed Manager has data quality and compliance at the heart of everything we do. We have always encouraged clients to investigate and cleanse records which we know will be unsuitable or be disapproved from … Continue reading →

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Small Images Update #2

Posted on October 26, 2016 by rwood

Our last article on small images related to Google image requirements and the reports we generate to address these. We also advised that any images which did not meet the criteria for Google Shopping would not be processed. The blog … Continue reading →

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Small Images Update

Posted on August 15, 2016 by rwood

Earlier this month (August 2016) we wrote out to confirm our new image size compliance tests for Google minimum sizes are in place and working across client accounts. From September 1st Google will disapprove images within Shopping where product image … 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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Fruugo and Rakuten – No GTIN, No Export.

Posted on April 7, 2016 by rwood

We have now implemented changes on the Feed Manager system ahead of the April 29th deadline for Fruugos GTIN requirement.

From the beginning of this month any products uploaded without GTINs in your source feed shall not be input to Fruugo AND Rakuten feeds. Continue reading →

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Google Condition Suspension Warnings

Posted on March 3, 2016 by rwood

We have now seen the first suspension warning for incorrect condition – in other words a difference between the value submitted on a product submission and that stated on the merchant website. Your source feed needs to state the correct … Continue reading →

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Item Requires A GTIN

Posted on February 17, 2016 by rwood

From this month (mid February 2016), merchants will see a new warning error in their Google Merchant Centres, namely “item requires a gtin”. At this time, these are just warnings However, by the 16th May 2016 all merchants must supply … Continue reading →

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Google Advert Disapprovals

Posted on January 27, 2016 by rwood

This week Google released an article summarising their continued battle with fraudulent and misleading advertising. They now have a ‘global team of 1,000+ people dedicated’ to this and last year alone saw them disable ‘more than 180 million ads’ for violating policies. Continue reading →

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Page Speed Load Time

Posted on January 18, 2016 by rwood

One of the less well understood errors within Google Shopping is a product disapproval caused by an “access problem”

Where an error is caused by either a bad or broken link or by Google’s bot being unable to get to the link concerned because of a robot blocker, this is reasonably obvious and can be fixed relatively straightforwardly Continue reading →