05 Nov 11-09
Promote Your Products with Google Product Search Integration
We are proud to announce that Shopify now integrates with Google Product Search (formerly Google Base). Using this free service is a great way to increase product promotion and discovery. We recommend every eligible Shopify store to opt in to this service for optimal exposure.
Google Product Search
Google Product Search is part of Google Base, an online database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content, such as products. Google Product Search functions as a comparison shopping engine allowing people to search for products and find results from many different online retailers, comparing descriptions, price, etc.
Listing your products on Google Product Search is a great way to get more exposure for your products and drive traffic to your shop.
Note: Google currently only allows integration with merchants operating in the US and operating in USD, or in the UK and operating in GBP, or in Germany and operating in Euros.
Check out the marketing tab in your shop admin to opt in to this integration.
Comments
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
Yay! So glad I won’t have to use the pages workaround for this anymore. Thanks Jesse.
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
Yes!
I was scratching my head just last weel wondering how I was gonna do this on my own. Cha-Ching!
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
No problem Jamie.
Keep your eyes out in the near future as we have more integrations planned.
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
@Jens,
Unfortunately this is a Google policy, not our own, and I don’t know when/if that will change.
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
Hi shopify
Great feature, any on idea about, when it is going to available for some of us that are not under this category.
Note: Google currently only allows integration with merchants operating in the US and operating in USD, or in the UK and operating in GBP, or in Germany and operating in Euros.
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
Hi Jesse
OK thanks for the answer :-)
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
That sounds great! But what about Canada??
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
Hi Jesse,
Wicked news can get rid of the hack, however the one good thing about the hack is that I got nice stats and functionality from the merchant centre.
Is this functionality going to be available to our clients we have on shopify int he future
Best Regards
Mike Harding – Director
November 05, 2009 07:30AM EST
@Mike This kind of access is not provided by Google. However we will look into this and see if we can get your clients that information somehow.
@Catherine Unfortunately Google Product Search only allows residents of certain countries to list products in their search engine.
We hope to provide more integrations in the future, and hopefully some of them will support Canadian merchants.