VersaFeed Blog

Featured Article
Feb 25 2026

What to Expect from a VersaFeed Product Feed Audit

A product feed audit from VersaFeed isn't just a report, it's a competitive edge. Unlike machine-generated graders that simply echo product diagnostics, our audits are led by seasoned product feed experts who personally analyze your data …

Read More
Recent Articles
Tagged Articles
Google Merchant Center
43 results   All tags
Jun 10 2026

Turn Google Insights into Action: Driving Performance with FeedBack

Google provides some of the most valuable product listing KPIs and diagnostic data available. Here’s how to put those insights to work using VersaFeed’s suite of proprietary feed integrations to maintain high ad quality and maximize Shopp…

Read More
Jun 03 2026

How to Fix the “Too Many Regional Settings” Error in Google Merchant Center

Regional Availability and Pricing can be a useful setup for retailers with region-specific pricing or availability. But the implementation has a few hidden limits. One of them is the “Too Many Regional Settings” error in Google Merchant C…

Read More
Jun 02 2026

Is the Shopify Native Channel Sync Right for You?

Tempted by Shopify's apps for product feed syndication? Our observation as a data feed provider suggests that these options can sometimes lead to problems and suboptimal data outputs. If you're contemplating a switch to a Shopify direct ap…

Read More
May 29 2026

How to Choose Between Sale Price, Merchant Promotions, and Loyalty Pricing in Google Merchant Center

Google Merchant Center gives retailers several ways to show discounts, but they are not interchangeable. Choosing the wrong setup can create pricing mismatches, missed annotations, or confusing customer experiences. Here’s how to use each…

Read More
May 19 2026

Common Google Merchant Center Product Disapprovals and How to Fix Them

Product disapprovals and warnings in Google Merchant Center can quickly reduce product visibility across Shopping ads and free listings. Google reviews submitted product data to confirm that it matches the product information on your webs…

Read More
Apr 23 2026

5 Advanced Custom Label Tactics to Increase eCommerce Revenue

Custom labels are one of the most useful levers in product feed management, but most brands stop at basic segmentation. The strongest programs use custom labels to control spend based on inventory health, size availability, margin, perfor…

Read More
Apr 23 2026

How to Add Video to Google Shopping Listings to Boost Conversions

Google gives merchants an underused way to add more context to product listings: the video_link attribute. It lets you attach product videos directly to feed data so shoppers can see the item from different angles or watch it in use. That…

Read More
Mar 30 2026

Google Business Agent: Waste of Time or Timely Solution?

In late 2025, Google announced that it could provide your business with an agentic "sales associate" linked directly from the Google search results, free of charge. You can try it out by searching for participating retailers on Google, li…

Read More
Mar 24 2026

Top Insights & Action Items from Google's Merchant Excellence Report

The Merchant Excellence Report (MER) is one of Google’s most actionable data insight tools for assessing feed health and uncovering growth opportunities. By examining the industry benchmarks and optimization insights in this report, adver…

Read More
Nov 25 2025

Schema.org: The Hidden Anchor of Google Shopping Stability

Schema.org markup is often treated as an SEO tool — but for Google Shopping Ads, it’s a critical foundation for stability. Google uses multiple crawlers to power Shopping Ads, including a Structured Data bot that reads a site’s HTML for S…

Read More
Nov 13 2025

Google Brand Profiles: The New SERP Front Door for Retail Marketers

Google’s Brand Profile is becoming a high-value SERP asset—one that now consolidates brand descriptions, imagery, promotions, loyalty benefits, and core business details directly inside Google Merchant Center. When a user searches a brand…

Read More
Oct 29 2025

Welcomed Update for Google Merchant Center Next

Google Merchant Center Next just rolled out a few subtle but impactful UI adjustments — and they make the platform far more workable for data feed managers. The once-static navigation “Sections” are now collapsible , helping clear away mu…

Read More
Jun 10 2025

Merchant Promotions Made Easy - Google Sheet Promotions Feed

Google Merchant Promotions are an exciting way to help showcase the deal and help you stand out against the competition on the SERP with a special annotation. However, getting the Merchant Promotion set-up in the feed and in the GMC UI it…

Read More
Sep 16 2024

Google Tests AI Videos from Merchant Images: What You Need to Know

Google is launching a new pilot program to create videos directly from your product images, descriptions, and logos included in your product data feed in Google Merchant Center . Google selects merchants for this pilot and sends them an em…

Read More
Jun 26 2024

Feed Driven Product Ads for Grocery

With digital grocery sales on the rise ( predicted to account for 20% of all grocery sales by 2026 ), retailers need to ensure they are keeping up. Google and Meta both offer support for product feed/catalog driven ads that not only help …

Read More
May 28 2024

What You Need to Know for Shopping Ads from GML '24

Find the official Google full recap here or watch it for yourself on YouTube . Here's our quick take on the Shopping Ads/Product Feed announcements from Google Marketing Live this year: 3 New Shopping Ad Formats Introduced: Video Highlight…

Read More
Feb 12 2024

Extracting Product Details from Images using AI

An image is worth a thousand words – but extracting those words can be a royal pain! How many times do clients have excellent product images but lackluster descriptions, or even missing color/material/pattern data? We're pleased to announ…

Read More
Nov 29 2023

VersaFeed Unveils New AI Tool to Save Clients Hundreds of Hours

San Francisco, CA, November 28th, 2023: VersaFeed, a leading ad-tech provider for ecommerce retailers, today announces a new feature to its proprietary product data feed management platform: ChatGPT integration . The first product feed co…

Read More
Nov 08 2023

Beauty Virtual Try-On Experience for Google PLAs

After much anticipation, Google is now offering beauty brands a way to interact virtually with their mobile shoppers via Free Listings and Shopping Ads. AR beauty features were introduced nearly three years ago; however, only recently has…

Read More
Oct 16 2023

Price Competitiveness & Best Seller Integration Strategies

VersaFeed is taking custom label strategies to the next level by integrating with Google Merchant Center’s Market Insights retail data. Both the Price Competitiveness and Best Sellers reports are currently available within the Merchant Cen…

Read More