Why Your Products May Not Appear in Google Shopping Search Results - Answer

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Aug 14, 2009

In my previous post I shared a cry for help from someone who asked why products from his Google Base Feed were not showing up in the Google Shopping search results. The answer was obvious to me only because I'd encountered this exact situation several times before, but it's a common mistake that many people (including me) make, especially when starting out with Google Base feeds.

Google is excluding the feed from general Google Shopping results because the feed contains the Location attribute for each of the records in the feed. Google will assume that the product is for sale locally only and will therefore not display the product in the general Google shopping results.

The Location attribute is the issue here

Learn more about the Google Base Feed Location attribute and other reasons why your products may not appear in the Google shopping search.