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The Searchind Newsletter is written by Simone Parodi, an international SEO consultant for eCommerce. He helps many eCommerce businesses achieve qualified organic traffic and increase their revenue.
SEARCHIND Some ecommerce catalogs will stop syncing to Google in August API Diagnostics in Google Merchant Center Google is replacing the Content API for Shopping with the new Merchant API. The deadline is August 18, 2026. Anyone who manages products on Google in an automated way needs to be aware of this change. Why is Google making this change? The Content API for Shopping had been around for years and had become increasingly difficult to update and expand. Google rebuilt it from scratch...
Searchind Google is changing how products get discovered and purchased online With UCP, Google's AI handles the entire purchase journey from reading your product feed, to comparing offers, to completing checkout without the user ever visiting your site. Organic traffic can drop while sales go up, and your analytics will show nothing. If before you won because someone clicked your site, now you'll often win because the AI picked your product. Pricing errors, feed inconsistencies, inventory...
Searchind 🛍️ We audited 10,000 products across a Google Merchant Center feed We audited 10,000 products across a Google Merchant Center feed and found 5 issues quietly killing ad spend. The results were painful: 1. Titles too short to match real search queries, Google doesn't know when to show your products. Your competitors get the click. You don't.2. Non-standard formats Google can't read properly, data that looks fine on your end, but fails silently on theirs.3. Missing attributes in...