Google Shopping Free Listings for Shopify: The New Black AI

Google lists a fashion store's products for free, in the Shopping tab and on the results page, and tells the merchant how they do in Merchant Center, a dashboard most brands open once. The New Black AI now reads it on the Store page: impressions, clicks, approved products, and a product-by-product table.

What the Google Shopping view shows

In Store › Traffic, next to Google Search Console and Analytics:

• Impressions and clicks of your free listings on the window you chose, with the click-through rate, each figure against the period before.
• Listings approved, as "approved out of total", the one number that says whether Google lists your catalogue.
• A table of your products, each with Google's status, approved, disapproved or pending, the refused ones first, and the issue that holds each one back.

When the issue is a missing colour, age group, gender or another Google attribute, a Fix button writes the value on the Shopify product, where Google's feed reads it; that part is described in Fix missing Google Shopping attributes.

How it works

1. Connect Merchant Center in Connectors, with the Google sign-in you already use for Search Console. 2. Open the Store page, Traffic, then Google Shopping. 3. Set the period on the tabs row. The figures follow it, like every other tab of the Store.

Why it matters for a merchant

A fashion store's products can sit refused in Merchant Center for weeks because nobody looks. On the Store page the refused count is red, on the same screen as the sessions and the search queries, so the problem is seen the morning it appears, and fixed from the same table.

The feature is described on Google Shopping free listings for Shopify stores. The rest of the Traffic tab is in The New Black AI integrates Google Search Console and Store dashboard without Shopify.