Google Shopping Check: Are Your Products Showing to Shoppers, and Why Not?
Description
You find out which of your products a shopper can see on Google today, and which they cannot. For each hidden product, you learn why. The fee counts toward the fixes. If you go ahead, I take it off the fix price, so it is not a charge on top.
Who this is for
Maybe Google says your products are approved, but a search shows nothing.
Maybe your ads kept spending while your products sat hidden.
Maybe Google flagged your store for "misrepresentation" and nobody can tell you what to change.
Maybe an app doubled your Google listings overnight, or stopped sending them at all.
Maybe you want someone to look before you put fresh budget into Google.
Why it matters
Merchant Center is Google's free product listing. It decides what shows on the Shopping tab, in Search, in Images and on YouTube. Google's own page says products are not guaranteed to show. In practice a store falls out quietly. The link between Shopify and Google lapses but still reads "connected". A bulk edit strips one required field across hundreds of products. The product list Google receives has the wrong price or the wrong link. Your business details sit unverified and every product goes limited. The green light in your admin stays green. The spend keeps going out. The shelf is empty. Shop owners say the same thing: Google says approved, yet a search shows nothing.
What I check
I work from Google's own screens and from your store. Then I shop as a stranger.
What a shopper sees. I pick ten of your products. I search for each one on Google in a fresh private window, on a phone and on a computer. I record which ones show on the Shopping tab and in Search, and which do not. I keep screenshots.
Google's own list. In Merchant Center I read every product Google marks approved, limited or not approved. I read every account-level warning. I also read whether Google has asked you to verify your business details.
The connection. The Google channel in Shopify binds three things on one screen: your Google account, Merchant Center and Google Ads. I read which account each one is bound to. I check whether that person still has the rights it needs.
The product list Google receives. I check that prices, stock, links and images match what your store shows a shopper today. Google's own rules say the price in your product list must match your page. If it does not, Google can mark the product "not approved".
Your settings. Which countries the channel sends products to. Shipping and returns details. The web address Google was told to use for checkout. An old web address in one of these hides every product.
Your other apps. If a second app also sends products to Google, I read what it sends and whether the two lists clash.
What you get
A written report with screenshots. For each of the ten products, where it showed and where it did not. For every hidden or limited product, the reason Google gives and what it means in plain words. Then a short fix list, in order. Each fix has a fixed price. I say which ones you can do yourself in a few minutes. If everything is showing, the report says so. You decide what goes ahead.
What I need from you
Shopify admin access. You share a four-digit code from your Shopify settings. I send the request, and you approve it.
Standard access to your Merchant Center. You add my email as a user. Read-only access to Google Ads if you run Shopping ads.
The name of any app that sends your products to Google.
Timing
3 business days from your payment or my access to Shopify and Merchant Center, whichever comes last.
Outside this service
Google decides what it approves. I can put your products, settings and connections right and show you the proof. I cannot make Google approve a product or lift a suspension. Google's own policy page says suspended accounts are reinstated only "in compelling circumstances". If your account is suspended, the report tells you what Google is objecting to. It also says what a review request would need to carry. Whether Google accepts it is Google's call.
Questions people ask
Will my products come back?
If the cause is on your side, I can fix it and show you the products live. That means the data, the settings or the connection. Google then needs time to refresh, so I check again on two days after the fix and show you both. If the cause is a Google policy decision, I tell you that in the report. I do not charge you for a fix I cannot deliver.
Will this change my store?
No. The check reads and tests. I change nothing until you agree to a fixed price.
What if the fixes cost more than the fee?
You pay the difference, once you agree to a fixed price. If you do not go ahead, you keep the full report.