See your store the way Google sees your feed.
Selling on Amazon and running Shopify too? Amazon forced your product data to stay clean. Shopify doesn’t — so the feed it auto-sends to Google is often quietly broken. Run a free, product-by-product audit: visibility score, gaps, and the fixes that matter most.
Example Visibility Report
Amazon kept your data clean. Shopify doesn’t.
For years Amazon made you do it right. Barcodes, categories, proper attributes, real structure. Every time it rejected a listing, it was cleaning your data for you, and you built good catalog habits without even thinking about it.
Then you added Shopify, and the guardrails disappeared. No approvals, no category enforcement, no barcode requirement. Shopify also generates a Google feed for you automatically, and most merchants never open it. Whatever sits in your store, good or bad or half-finished, gets passed straight to Google. A feed can be perfectly valid and still be a weak feed.
It is more common than you would think. Of the feeds we have audited, fewer than 1 in 10 had everything set up correctly. And Google doesn’t email you when a product gets suppressed for a weak attribute. It just shows it less.
A Visibility Report you can act on.
Example report — your results will reflect your own feed.
The report shows the catalog score, how many products were audited, what Google can struggle to read, and the exact fixes to prioritize.
- Missing
google_product_category - No GTIN where one exists
- Missing description
- Variant without color
- Sale price without effective date
Three steps to a clear answer.
Give us your feed
Paste your Google Merchant feed link or upload the file. Prefer ground truth? Sign in and connect Merchant Center so we can read the live feed and disapprovals.
We validate every product
We check each product against Google’s product data spec: identifiers, images, titles, categories, variants and completeness.
Get your Visibility Report
A 0–100 score with a prioritized, plain-language fix list. We email it to you and keep it in your account so you can come back any time.
Every product, against Google’s spec.
Product identifiers
Invalid or missing GTINs, weak brand/MPN, the single biggest cause of silent disapprovals.
Images
Missing, insecure, or too small, including the 500×500 minimum that becomes a hard rule in Jan 2027.
Titles & descriptions
Promo text, ALL-CAPS, thin copy that quietly hurts ranking and matching.
Categories & completeness
Missing google_product_category, product_type, and unfilled recommended attributes.
Required fields
Price format, availability values, links, and structural errors that block products outright.
Variants & apparel
Missing size, color, gender, age_group and variant grouping where Google requires them.
Landing-page consistency
Optional checks for price and availability mismatches between the feed and the product page.
Your feed isn’t just for Google Shopping anymore.
The same feed now feeds AI. Google’s Gemini and AI Mode pull product data straight from your Merchant Center feed to decide what to recommend. And when researchers analyzed what ChatGPT recommends, more than 80% of it traced back to that same Google Shopping data.
So a weak feed doesn’t just cost you on Google. It quietly leaves you out of the AI answers your buyers are already using to shop. The cleaner your feed, the better every one of these systems understands what you sell.
The 2026–27 compliance cliff.
| Apr 14, 2026 | New shipping + video attributes; image-size warnings begin. |
| Jun 30, 2026 | video_link starts serving with policy/quality validation. |
| Jan 31, 2027 | 500×500px minimum image enforced, catalog-wide disapproval risk. |
Running the check now tells you exactly how exposed your catalog is before the rules tighten.
We read. We never write.
Whether you paste a feed link or connect Merchant Center, we only ever read your data to run the audit. We never create, update, or delete anything in your Merchant Center. Full stop.
If you later choose our done-for-you fix service, we only apply changes you explicitly approve, at the source (your Shopify product data) or via a supplemental feed, with a full change log and one-click rollback.
Questions, answered.
Is the check really free?
Yes. The feed audit and your Visibility Report are free. If you want us to fix the issues for you, that’s our done-for-you service, but the audit costs nothing.
I sell on Amazon and run Shopify too. Why would my feed be worse?
Amazon enforced clean product data for you: barcodes, categories, attributes, and it rejected anything that didn’t fit. Shopify has none of those guardrails, and it auto-generates a Google feed from whatever is already in your store. So strong catalog habits built on Amazon can still leave gaps Google sees, simply because nothing is checking the feed Shopify sends.
Do you change anything in my Merchant Center?
No. We only ever read your data. We never call any create, update, or delete action on your Merchant Center. Full stop. The paste-a-link option is read-only by nature, and when you connect Merchant Center we use it strictly to read your feed and Google’s disapprovals.
What do I need to run it?
Either your product feed link (most Shopify feed apps expose one), or sign in with Google to connect Merchant Center for the most accurate read, including Google’s real disapprovals.
Why does my feed affect Google and AI visibility?
Feed quality is now a ranking factor, not just a pass/fail gate, and the AI shopping surfaces pull from the same feed. Incomplete or invalid attributes quietly suppress products with no warning.
What happens after I run it?
We email your report and save it to your account so you can come back to view it. From there you can re-run it, track changes over time, or have Byteout fix the issues at the source.
This is usually a cleanup, not a rebuild.
GTINs can be added. Categories can be corrected. Variant groups can be reconnected. Images can be swapped. Most feed problems are far less work to fix than people expect.
The hard part is just knowing they exist, because nothing in Shopify tells you. That’s what the free check is for.
See what your feed is really doing.
Free, read-only, results in minutes. You’ll know exactly what to fix, whether you fix it yourself or have us do it.
