Yes, it’s absolutely true that you can list Your Products for Free on Google Shopping from anywhere in the world to the online shoppers from selected countries and make an empire through your online store. As consumers all over the world increasingly turn to ecommerce to meet their shopping needs, it’s more important than ever for retailers and interested shoppers to easily find each other where so many searches begin: Google. 

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Every day, hundreds of millions of people come to Google Search for their shopping needs, making the Shopping tab on Google an attractive place for businesses to showcase their products. Google search is too friendly and shows those products that are near to the users approach with preference given to local businesses for local searches. This is the best place where small businesses and entrepreneurs can get targeted sales through an improved google shopping tab.

Previously, the Shopping tab consisted only of paid listings but starting today, free listings will appear alongside paid ads in relevant search results in the following countries: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, Finland, Netherlands, Greece, Switzerland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Austria, Australia, Poland, Spain, Russia, Italy, India, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Israel, Thailand, Ukraine, Republic of Korea, South Africa, UAE, Portugal, Malaysia, Philippines, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Taiwan.

Shoppers in any of the above listed countries will have a greater selection of products from more stores. And online retailers selling to those countries can now boost product visibility across Google for free and augment paid ads with free listings.

Shopify is partnering with Google to make it easy for merchants to sync, submit, and optimize their products for these free listings through Shopify’s Google channel. If you already have products synced through the channel, your approved products can start showing up in relevant Search, Shopping, Images results—no further action is required on your end. 

Merchants selling in any of the listed countries can access this free feature starting today.

With the introduction of free listings, eligible merchants can submit their products to be listed in the Shopping tab on Google. From there, those products have the chance to be discovered by shoppers most likely to purchase them without having to pay for clicks.

While this does not replace Shopping ads, the introduction of free listings in the Shopping tab gives small businesses access to a popular online shopping destination when they may not have the resources to effectively run and scale their own Google Ads campaigns. It also gives merchants who are already using Shopping ads a way to supplement their paid advertising with free listings. 

Getting your products listed on the Shopping tab

Eligible merchants can use Shopify’s Google channel to get set up. The first step is to follow the checklist to make sure you meet all of the Google Merchant Center requirements. You can choose any Comparison Shopping Services via the CSS dashboard available in the Google Merchant Center.

Once you have synced your product feed to Google Merchant Center and your products are approved, they can appear in relevant search results. 

There are also several steps you can take to optimize your listings  and improve their discoverability:

  • Make sure your product and store information is detailed and up to date.
  • Submit high-quality images of your products that follow Google Merchant Center’s specifications.
  • Ensure your product title attributes for each product feed are descriptive—searchers will generally ignore vague titles. 
  • Consider the specific words your customers would type into Google to find your product and incorporate them naturally into the title and description attributes. Conduct some keyword research to validate your assumptions about how people are searching for your products.
  • Include all relevant product feed attributes, such as Size and Gender to help the right shoppers find the right products. 
  • Optimize the product type attribute with at least 3 levels if possible. For example, if you’re selling Dog Blankets, you might use Home & Decor > Furnishings > Bedroom > Blanket > Dog. 

For more information on setting up the Google integration for your Shopify store, check out our help docs.

To learn more about how Google Channel can help you get discovered by interested shoppers, check out our guide on Shopping Ads in Google, or our Compass course on Google Ads for Ecommerce.

About the author:
Zabrina Hossain

Zabrina is a Product Manager at Shopify, where she spends her time between leading the Social Channels and Conversational Commerce team. You might catch her on her way to the latest product meet-up in Toronto while on her bright yellow bike.