| What is Google Merchant Center? | mikebrogan | 5/7/10 4:37 PM | I have no idea what this service will do for my business? I've read lots of helpful posts about how to list my products, but I cannot seem to find a clear description as to what Google Merchant Center (GMC) actually is? Is GMC an online store? Can |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | Celebird | 5/7/10 7:35 PM | google-merchant-center is none of those things. google-product-search connects your products to the shoppers searching for them, helping you drive traffic and sales to your on-line e-commerce store. once listed within google-product-search your ite |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | mikebrogan | 5/11/10 8:57 AM | That didn't really help me. Maybe this is a better way to phrase my question. Google Merchant Center is not a webstore, correct? It is a way to drive traffic to an existing webstore? For example, Webstore by Amazon is a full service webstore wher |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | bluepennylady | 5/11/10 9:31 AM | Hi The google merchant center is the place to upload and then monitor a file specific to Google shopping. Product that shows up in a search result in Google shopping gets there because a seller uploaded a file to their merchant center, the file wa |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | Celebird | 5/11/10 9:41 PM | yes, google-merchant-center is not a webstore, correct. yes, it is a way to drive traffic to an existing webstore -- but, not reguadless of who you host the store with or how the store is hosted. how a store is hosted does indeed matter with respec |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | RochPoet | 5/18/10 9:43 PM | This is all still quite confusing. Judy's asnwers just lead to more questions, namely: 1. How does one opload items to Google Merchant Center? 2. How does one access Google Product Search? 3. Apparently, if I want to sell my products via eBay, etc. |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | Celebird | 5/18/10 10:57 PM | (1) if you own the website, you create a file, usually with a spreadsheet, that contains a list of your on-hand inventory; you register the file and then re-upload the file once a month -- the feed-file has an 'upload' link within the merchant-center |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | bluepennylady | 5/19/10 9:32 AM | RochPoet My apologies for not answering your question and only causing more questions. Judy bluepennylady |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | pumpkinpie | 7/13/12 2:08 AM | Can you pls tell me what the difference is between google merchant and google shopping? if I upload my products to google merchant is this time consuming how does it work? thank you |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | VerticalRail | 7/13/12 10:02 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | VerticalRail | 7/13/12 10:02 AM | RochPoet, I'll give this a shot! 1. To upload items to Google Merchant Center, you must create a data feed in excel. This is a list of all of your products along with their attributes and is basically a way for Google to index your inventory |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | daphneandathos | 7/14/12 3:37 AM | Thanks for the reply, if I have an e-commerce store with approx 300 items how long would this take to upload? thank you |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | VerticalRail | 7/17/12 10:15 AM | daphneandathos, Your 300 item data feed should take only seconds to upload. Getting them all indexed, however, is a different story- After you upload your items to Google, there is a processing period that may take anywhere from a couple minut |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | owanomono | 7/25/12 2:35 PM | Hi, We have a martial arts club that doesn't sell anything "material", except courses in how to defend oneself. I wonder if Google Merchant Center is right for us? Or do you have to have "material goods" i.e to sell like phones, cars, kitchenware or |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | Sweet_Dadddy_Zim | 7/26/12 1:28 PM | I've read through these posts and I still don't get it either. |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | VerticalRail | 8/1/12 10:31 AM | Hey Owanomono, I took this snippet from Google: "Google Merchant Center is a tool which helps you upload your product listings to be used for Google Shopping, Google Product Ads, and Google Commerce Search."So unfortunately, Google only allows you to |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | keefer98 | 8/1/12 12:58 PM | We are looking into having our e-store items uploaded and listed through Google Merchant Center. We make hand-dyed wool for craftspeople/fiber artists to use to make rugs, wool applique and so on. As far as I can tell, there is no place in the Google |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | VerticalRail | 8/1/12 3:41 PM | keefer98, Have you already tried using the Google Taxonomy Tool? There's a neat little search box where you can input keywords and the tool spits out category strings that match your query. It even generates the string for you if you click on the s |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | keefer98 | 8/1/12 5:23 PM | Thanks so much! I did look at the taxonomy search tool and entered three SEO-worthy terms for what we sell, and got zero results. It would never occur to me to look under Arts & Entertainment but there it is. Thanks again, will keep pushing ahead. : |
| Re: What is Google Merchant Center? | keefer98 | 8/1/12 5:25 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |