Category: Strategy

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Apr 08 2025

Crawl - Walk - Run :: Data Feed Recommendations for Growth Planning

Working closely with agencies, we get a lot of requests during planning phases, to provide recommendations using a good/better/best (or crawl/walk/run) framework to grow their programs. See below for how we would break down these recommen…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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May 28 2026

Why Retailers Should Add Video to Pinterest Product Feeds

Pinterest shopping ads are built on product catalog data. That makes feed quality, not just creative quality, a major factor in how effectively retailers can activate new ad formats. Pinterest supports several shopping ad formats after a …

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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…

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May 07 2026

Standard Shopping for Google VLAs

Vehicle Listing Ads (VLA) can now run in Standard Shopping campaigns on Google , offering advertisers greater control and flexibility. Until recently, VLAs were primarily tied to Performance Max (PMax) campaigns which is notorious for min…

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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…

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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…

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Mar 26 2026

Listing Your Ecommerce Products on Gemini

While many retailers are stuck in a frenzy over ChatGPT, Google Gemini and its associated AI surfaces offer a semi-direct path to listing your products right now. By simply submitting a standard Google Merchant Center feed, your products …

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Mar 26 2026

Listing Your Ecommerce Products on ChatGPT

ChatGPT allows both organic and paid product placement within its ubiquitous chat interface, but actually getting products live can be challenging. Because of the absolute frenzy surrounding AI and its massive global takeoff in usage, alm…

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Mar 25 2026

Safely Participating in Amazon’s Shop Direct (2026)

Amazon’s Shop Direct program enables shoppers to find products that are unavailable in the standard Amazon ecosystem by sending buyers off-site to third-party merchants. Historically, Amazon has been hesitant to let shoppers leave Amazon,…

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Sep 30 2025

The Price is Right - Strategies for Promoting Your Best Price in Shopping Ads

The 2025 holiday season will see nearly half of all shoppers actively seeking competitive prices and take advantage of major sales events , according to Google's Holiday Essentials report. Consumers are motivated by discounts, with 32% ma…

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Aug 14 2025

AI-Generated Product Attributes

Your products have a lot more attributes than just "size", "color", "material" and the like. But how can you easily find them all and include them in your feeds, site search, and other ecomm areas? As with all things in 2025, the answer d…

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Jul 15 2025

Generating AI Product Images for Data Feeds

For years, getting seasonal or lifestyle product images meant expensive photoshoots or hiring Photoshop experts. Now, specialized AI tools can generate compelling images in seconds. We consistently see these images drive 10%+ lifts in cli…

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Apr 02 2025

Do Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, Meta, and Others Offer Local Inventory Ads?

Most of our local feed work is focused on Google Local Inventory Ads (LIA) —no surprise there, since it’s the biggest game in town. But a lot of clients don’t realize there are other ad platforms that might help push local, in-store produ…

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Apr 02 2025

SA360 KPI Integration for Custom Labels

VersaFeed's integration with Google's SA360 performance data now allows for dynamic KPI Custom Label strategies. Previously, clients leveraged Google Ads performance data to create Top Performer campaigns, with some clients reporting a 2.…

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Nov 27 2024

Demystifying LIA and RAAP: How They Overlap and When to Use Each

While Local Inventory Ads (LIA) and Regional Availability and Pricing (RAAP) feeds generally address completely different use cases, today we'll explore how they actually can overlap—and why that overlap often confuses advertisers. Conten…

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Nov 04 2024

VersaFeed Enterprise Integration Options

How VersaFeed Easily Ingests Product Data from Complex Enterprise Systems like APIs, PIM/MDMs, Ecommerce Platforms, and More. VersaFeed specializes in seamless integrations for enterprise clients with complex e-commerce operations. Here’s…

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Nov 01 2024

Unlock Hidden Revenue with a Free Feed Audit

Our no-cost feed audit reveals quick wins and fixes for boosting your ad visibility across Google, Meta, and beyond. No commitment, just valuable insights . Curious how your feed stacks up against competitors? Let our expert feed engineer…

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Oct 23 2024

Expanding RAAP: How to Bring Regional Style Ads to Channels Without Native Support

Creative Solutions for Running Location-Based Ads (e.g., “RAAP”) on Platforms Like TikTok, Pinterest, Snap, and Others While platforms like Google and Meta provide native solutions for running targeted local ads through Regional Availabil…

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