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Solution — Shopping & Search Ads

Give Performance Max a catalog worth bidding on.

Google and Microsoft match shopping queries on your titles, segment bids on your custom labels, and drop any SKU that breaks spec. GoDataFeed rebuilds your catalog to each engine's requirements, fills the gaps, and validates every SKU before it reaches Merchant Center, so campaigns spend on products that can serve.

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93%

of retailers running Google Shopping ads use Performance Max (Tinuiti, Q1 2025)

Up to 20%

higher conversion rates for products with correct GTINs (Google)

17%

year-over-year growth in Microsoft search ad spend (Tinuiti, Q1 2025)

How the catalog becomes the campaign

Three jobs finished before the auction reads a SKU.

Map to spec

One source, mapped to each engine's spec.

Google and Microsoft each want their own titles, identifiers, product types, and category taxonomy. GoDataFeed maps your catalog to both from one source and maintains the templates when a spec changes, so a Merchant Center update doesn't turn into a week of spreadsheet work.

Field mappings from one catalog to Google and Microsoft Merchant Center specs for title, GTIN, product type, and category.
Product title built from brand, product type, and variant attributes, plus custom labels for margin, season, and stock depth.

Engineer what the auction reads

Titles and custom labels that steer the auction.

Titles with brand, product type, and variant attributes match the long-tail queries that convert. Custom labels encode margin, seasonality, and stock depth so Performance Max can separate core sellers from clearance. AI title suggestions go through your preview and approval, then the rules engine validates them before anything ships.

Validate before you spend

Every SKU checked against the rulebook first.

Pre-submission validation catches missing GTINs, malformed prices, and over-length titles before Merchant Center flags them. When a policy change hits thousands of SKUs, one rule change clears them together. Budget goes to products that can serve.

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Pre-submission check flagging missing GTINs, malformed prices, and over-length titles before the feed reaches Merchant Center.

One catalog, every auction

Pick a campaign. Same clean source.

Google Shopping

Performance Max

Microsoft

Google Shopping and free listings.

Merchant Center spec, Google product categories, sale-price windows, and local inventory, mapped and validated so Shopping ads and free listings run on the same clean feed.

Feed status for Google Shopping, Performance Max, and Microsoft: items approved, items with warnings, and last update time.

Performance Max and AI Max.

All five custom_label slots filled from catalog data, item_group_id kept intact so variants don't collide, and titles built for query matching. PMax and AI Max get inputs that reflect your strategy instead of a storefront export.

Feed status for Google Shopping, Performance Max, and Microsoft: items approved, items with warnings, and last update time.

Microsoft Shopping campaigns.

A Microsoft Merchant Center feed built to Microsoft's spec from the same catalog, not recycled from Google. The same feed carries your products into Copilot's shopping answers.

Feed status for Google Shopping, Performance Max, and Microsoft: items approved, items with warnings, and last update time.

Store to served ad

From store to served ad.

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Ingest

Pull your full catalog, variants, and inventory from any store or source.

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Standardize

One clean master record, deduplicated and normalized.

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Enrich

Fill attributes and titles by rule, with AI suggestions you approve.

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Map

Shape each SKU to Google's and Microsoft's current spec.

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Validate

Run each SKU against the rulebook before submission.

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Syndicate

Publish, then monitor approvals and feed health from one view.

Two ways to run it

Self-serve or managed. Same platform either way.

Same platform, same data quality. Pick the level of hands-on you want - and switch later without re-platforming.

Self-serve

Your team runs it.

Full access to mappings, rules, and channels. Preview a change on sample SKUs, then push it on your schedule. No ticket, no queue.

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In-app editing for every product

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200+ integrations, ad channels on every plan

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Validation & alerts built in

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Managed

Our feed team runs it.

A dedicated feed team runs day-to-day operations while you keep full visibility and the keys to your data.

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Dedicated feed specialist

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Proactive monitoring & cleanup

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You still own and export everything

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Proof

Cleaner feeds, measurable sales lift.

SEM director

Web director

Shopify store

Within four months of optimizing our feeds with GoDataFeed, we increased sales by $10,000 a month. … Easy-to-use analytics and rules get rid of products that don’t convert.

$10K

more in sales per month within four months

Dustin Mower, Owner and SEM Director

In the last year of working with GoDataFeed, our conversion rates have tripled. The software enhances our product descriptions with more search-friendly terms, attracting a wider audience.

3x

conversion rate in one year

Brenda Smith, Director of Web Development

We ran into issues with our Shopify-native Google Shopping feed where we couldn't assign MPNs to product variants. … With GoDataFeed we have the flexibility to make associations and adjustments as needed.

5/5

Shopify App Store rating

Cable Bullet, Shopify merchant

Put a clean catalog in your next auction.

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FAQ

Search ads feed questions.

How long does setup take?

Our automation can have your Google feed ready to submit in minutes. When our team builds it, setup usually takes one to two days, and complex catalogs over 10,000 SKUs can take up to five business days.

Why not use the native Shopify Google channel?

The native channel sends store data as-is. It doesn't rewrite titles for query matching, fill custom labels, or validate SKUs against Merchant Center rules before submission. GoDataFeed does that work and leaves your store data untouched.

Can you build custom labels for Performance Max?

Yes. Rules fill all five custom_label slots from catalog data, such as margin band, season, price tier, or stock depth. Labels refresh on every sync, so listing groups follow the catalog instead of a manual export.

What happens when Google changes its spec?

We update the Google and Microsoft templates and the validation rules behind them. Your rules keep running, and anything the change affects shows up in validation before it becomes a disapproval.

Do you charge per channel?

Not for ad and shopping channels. Every plan includes Google, Microsoft, and the other ad channels, so adding one adds no fee. Marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, and eBay need the Pro plan or higher, or a single-channel marketplace feed.