How to Get your Items to Appear in Google?

[getitright1234]

Is the new cataloging preventing items from appearing in Google?  I use to get great Google search results, but now I can not find my items.   So, how does one get their items to appear in Google?

[marilyn6122]

I go off site, pull up my listings and "pin" them. Seems to help a little with visibility. Also making sure the listings are mobile friendly.

[abfabvintage]

@getitright1234

Hi, are you taking about Google Shopping? If you are, I still don't have answers from Blues, Tech Board, no one why I can't find my Store listings in Google Shopping. If you have a Store, which I do, eBay got rid of the RSS Feed and the seller's ability to input their own keywords. eBay supposedly does the Keyword thing now.

Only reply I received from a Blue 2 weeks ago was perhaps partake in the Catalogue or maybe my listings don't meet the Google criteria. They have always met the Google Shop criteria. I don't partake in any Catalogue as only sell vintage, pre-owned, used pottery, clothing, etc. And there is not a set Catalogue (thank the Lord) for those listings. Only ebay's New never used items. I was always able to access the G Shop by putting in "abfabvintage on ebay" (without quotes), then click on the G Shopping tab above the search bar in Google. 

I also know that before the Feed disappeared and ebay doing the Keywords, I was able to access Google Shopping every week since my first Store I established in 2014. It is now 3 weeks ago cannot access. Plus, eBay paid Google for these promotions. Sure, you can do the "generic" Google search by inputting your store, but I am talking about Google Shopping which is different. It showed my store in a gallery format. I am still on my crusade lolol to find out what is the "glitch".

[goodluckselling]

Google shopping has nothing to do with keywords as you are thinking.  RSS feeds do not have anything to do with google shopping.

eBay submits individual listings not entire ebay stores to google shopping.  Sellers like you and I can not submit our own eBay listings to google shopping.  If you have a stand alone website then you are the owner and can submit listings to google shopping from your website.

The fees to use google shopping are paid by eBay not you and I the sellers.  eBay does this as part of there advertsing budget.  It produces more transactions on eBay which creates revenue for eBay from fees.

eBay had over one billion listings active at any one time per month.  They are not going to be able to promote every item on google shopping all the time.

If you were fortunate enough to get listing on google shopping consistantly for the past 4 years, then you are the exception and not the rule.  We do not know the formula eBay uses to choose which items they want to promote.  We can assume they tie it into several different things like, seasonal, hot topic, events, holidays, fashion blitz, electronic blitzes, etc.

Google shopping has requirements.  When eBay submits the listings, if they do not meet the requirements then google does not show them.  We do not know if eBay prescreens the listings to meet all the requirements but they more than like do because the requirements are some of the item specifics.  So it stands to reason they filter through the item specifics to choose items for inclusion to the eBay feed to google shopping.

Here is a link to a third party forum with very good questions and answers.  I hope it helps clarify some things for you?

click link below

Ebay listings not showing in Google Shopping

Good Luck Selling!

[abfabvintage]

@goodluckselling

Hi, Good, thanks for the link which I have not read yet. And you were helpful when I first brought up this issue, we were assuming eBay probably is rotating sellers since there are a bizzillion listings on eBay.

I don't know what made me the Google Shop Golden Child all these years, but considering mingled in with my listings were vintage sellers who no longer are there including me. And now there are a lot of Betsy listings, nothing related to eBay.

Something recently changed, that is all I can say. I don't exaggerate that from 2014 with my first Store, have seen my items in the Goog from 2014 until 3 weeks ago. I think truthfully, it has to do with the New Catalogue which I am not part of or the RSS FEED or eBay isn't paying for the promotion. When I get to my tech geek with my questions, will let you know what I find out. Thanks for replying.  

[coolections]

The good news is people who want stuff on EBay buy it on Ebay. Very few would go to google to find something on Ebay. Even if they do see an Ebay listing they most likely hit the back button.

[orangehound]

The answer from goodluckselling is pretty much what I understand as well ... eBay selects certain items to submit to Google Shopping.  These are likely items that eBay feels have a good chance for conversion into sales (because every click costs eBay money).

By the way, I've noticed that Amazon doesn't appear to be in Google Shopping any longer.  I haven't seen an Amazon item there for about 2-3 months.

[goodluckselling]

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@abfabvintage wrote:

@goodluckselling

Hi, Good, thanks for the link which I have not read yet. And you were helpful when I first brought up this issue, we were assuming eBay probably is rotating sellers since there are a bizzillion listings on eBay.

I don't know what made me the Google Shop Golden Child all these years, but considering mingled in with my listings were vintage sellers who no longer are there including me. And now there are a lot of Betsy listings, nothing related to eBay.

Something recently changed, that is all I can say. I don't exaggerate that from 2014 with my first Store, have seen my items in the Goog from 2014 until 3 weeks ago. I think truthfully, it has to do with the New Catalogue which I am not part of or the RSS FEED or eBay isn't paying for the promotion. When I get to my tech geek with my questions, will let you know what I find out. Thanks for replying.  

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I decided to look at your listing, which I have not done before.  I looked at the first three listings and they do not have the required attributes.  You have done a terrific job on item specifics but the required attributes are not listed. google shopping requires

• UPC Numbers If no UPC then a MPN (manufacture part number) is required
• For brand new item Brand name is required
• Condition - I noticed you use pre owned as a condition and google shopping does not recognize pre owned as valid condition.  They accept New, used, and refurbished

There are a lot of other things but these are the ones I would focus on.  This might explain why your items are not in google shopping any longer? 

Google and eBay might have had an agreement due to the large volume of items eBay submits that relaxed the requirements and perhaps that agreement has ended and now all eBay submissions need to have the requirements?  That is just a guess. google shopping has had exemptions in the past.   It could be any reason really but your listings do not have the requirements to be in google shopping as they are right now.

Here is a link to the google merchant caenter to review the requirements for google shopping  -  https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112?hl=en

Good Luck Selling!

[goodluckselling]

Also if you by chance copy and pasted this exact same listing at another marketplace like Etsy for example, and they also submitting it also to google shopping this would be a violation of the duplicate listing policy google shopping has and they remove one of them.  I think they remove the newest listing and leave the longest running URL in google shopping.  Not entirely sure which one they remove but they do not allow duplicate listings from the same seller at different websites.

Good Luck Selling!

[abfabvintage]

@goodluckselling

Thank you for doing further research on this. Well, we all know vintage anything (pottery, clothing, collectibles) will never have an MPN or UPC number. Although I think months back some sellers were talking about buying UPCs? And I don't "double" list on Betsy. My non-ebay listing program has the term pre-owned which came to my guy from the eBay developer people. So I think I can create my own IS, call it condition and put Used. 

So maybe that is why I don't see any vintage clothing items unless I call up a specific type of item I am looking for. And maybe I should go over to Betsy and see how they are handling getting Google Shop to work as there are tons of Betsy's in Google Shop. Thanks again for taking the time trying to solve my mystery lolol. 

[abfabvintage]

@goodluckselling

And my items on TopRatedSeller. com still shows some of my items, set up much like what Google Shop looked like but some have ended, but you can click on see more and then it goes to all my active items. As of 2 weeks ago it didn't show items that ended, showed a bit more of active items. Something isn't right. 

[goodluckselling]

Back when google shopping changed to having the owner of the feed do all the submitting, I think about 2014, etsy and another marketplace became preferred partners with google shopping and etsy got some special exemptions at that time mainly for handmade which could not meet the requirements at that time.  I do not know how long or if they still have that agreement but it is fairly common for google shopping to work with different venues.

I probably would not buy the UPC codes for your items.  Keep in mind external search engines represents only about 20% of all traffic to ebay and that is all external searches together.  Although this number has increased dramatically in the last years for both eBay and Amaz both are in the same areas 20% it still represent a small part of how ebay gets traffic to the site.  Used items will be required to have the attributes when the eBay catalog goes live completely so I am not sure it would be very helpful to buy the codes?

Good Luck Selling!

[abfabvintage]

@goodluckselling

Thx Good. No....at this point in my recently retired pension life, I can't afford to pay for anything over and above what I already pay to eBay. lolol. Just today, the cable went up by 35.00 with no announcement why. Am on the phone now to find out why, when, how. So, no. Won't be doing that...unless eBay has under their hat that UPCs/MPNs (whatever that is) will be required. THEN, it will be time for me to leave. Did you bother to look at the TopRatedSeller.com? That I believe was originally created by Marketplaceplus. And never could figure out how they got my info, but hey being seen anywhere would be helpful. Just don't know why those items are now a bit screwed up. Again, thank you.

All I know, even though I don't sell alot at all, I always had/have high views, a normal amount of watchers (usually other sellers). I remember the days using AltaVista. The views were out of this world. But that was the old days.

[abfabvintage]

@goodluckselling

Sorry, marketplacepulse.

[goodluckselling]

I only have a few minutes and I just went to the topratedsellers.com site and that looks like an affiliate marketing website.  I choose one seller and clicked on one listing and it brought me back here to eBay and I view the item on the ebay site seeing the ebay listing.  They have a contract with eBay and all the listing links come back here to ebay where a potential buyer can buy it from the link.  When that happens eBay pays topratedsellers.com commision for bringing in a buyer who also purchased.

There are lots of these sites on the internet and some sellers get upset when they see there items at these sites but it is really just free advertsiement for your items.  Most of these sites do not last very long.

Good Luck Selling!