by Brian Roizen | May 10, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Starting yesterday May 9th, 2017 Google Merchant Center started reporting errors with their image crawlers. In some cases we are seeing that 36% of products are disapproved for “Unexpected image processing error.” Another large account has over 150,000... 
by Brian Roizen | May 9, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Starting July 11, 2017, Sears will start requiring UPCs or GTINs for most products.This is following Google Shopping, which made GTINs a requirement on May 16th, 2016.UPCs will be a required field for items listed in a set of categories. Exceptions to this requirement... 
by Brian Roizen | Apr 6, 2017 | Leadership & Culture
Feedonomics is an interesting name for a company that deals with feeds because it is the fusion of “feed” and “economics”. In other words, Feedonomics is really about getting you the best performance to price ratio for your feed needs. Many... 
by Brian Roizen | Apr 3, 2017 | PPC Ads & Marketing
We just caught Google testing a new look for Google Shopping today. The current design is shown below and has all the Google Shopping results grouped together in a grey bordered box. This new Google Shopping layout has a distinct grey bordered box around each result,... 
by Brian Roizen | Mar 7, 2017 | PPC Ads & Marketing
The Google Merchant Center in recent years has seen a huge facelift, from additional interface enhancements to the the long-awaited Promotions integration. Now Google is once again adding to the capabilities of Merchant Center. Google quietly announced a big change to...