Promotional text or watermark on image

Your product image has a promotional overlay — text like "SALE", "50% OFF", a watermark, or a logo banner. Google requires clean product imagery.

Either marketing baked promotions into the hero image, or the CDN is layering a promotion sticker dynamically. Either way, Google's image classifier flags the overlay and disapproves.

1. Audit every product image for text, badges, watermarks, or promotional graphics. The classifier picks up small "Free Shipping" callouts as easily as full "SALE" banners.
2. Use a clean original image as image_link. If you need promotional callouts elsewhere, put them on the landing page — not in the feed image.
3. If you use a dynamic-overlay CDN (like Cloudinary's f_auto with text layers), strip transformations from feed image URLs.
4. Brand logos on packaging are usually fine — what gets flagged is added marketing graphics.

• Adding "NEW!" stickers to call out fresh inventory
• Embedding price tags into the image as a design element
• Watermarks the photographer added that you forgot were there