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with Faisal Tusher

SEO · Commerce Data

Google Merchant Center

Merchant Center turns a product catalogue into free listings and Shopping ads. Feed quality decides visibility — a missing GTIN or mismatched price can remove a product entirely.
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The building blocks

What goes into Google Merchant Center

Product Feed Validator (Demo)

Edit the sample product to see which attributes would fail validation.

How I do it

The process

  1. 1

    Source

    Export catalogue data.

  2. 2

    Map

    Attributes to Google's specification.

  3. 3

    Validate

    Diagnostics and fixes.

  4. 4

    Enhance

    Supplemental feeds and labels.

  5. 5

    Activate

    Free listings and Shopping/PMax campaigns.

Principles I follow
  • Treat the feed as a product: owner, schedule, QA.
  • Optimise titles with search-demand attributes (size, capacity, model).
  • Use custom labels for margin, seasonality and bestseller segmentation in campaigns.
  • Monitor diagnostics daily during launches.

Measurement

The numbers I watch

Tools I use

  • MCGoogle Merchant Center
  • GAGoogle Ads
  • G4Google Analytics (GA4)

What you get

  • Feed specification
  • Title optimisation rules
  • Diagnostics runbook
Mass disapproval

Hundreds of products flagged for price mismatch.

Align feed refresh with price updates and add structured price markup to landing pages.

Illustrative example
Do I need to run ads to appear in Shopping?

No — free listings are available; ads add reach and control.

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