
What are Google Shopping ads?
- Google Shopping ads are the product listings that appear at the top of Google results when someone searches for a product to buy.
- Unlike text ads, Shopping ads show a photo of the product, its price and the store name, all pulled from your product feed.
- For an online store, Shopping ads are not an optional extra.
Google Shopping ads services cover the three things that decide whether Shopping works for you: a correctly set up Merchant Center, a product feed that Google can read and shoppers can trust, and campaigns structured to make the feed profitable.
Shopping versus search ads versus Performance Max
- Each campaign type has a different job.
- Search ads respond to text searches with text ads, and they work when someone is searching for exactly what you offer.
- The right structure for most stores is not one or the other.
- Search campaigns capture the searchers who use words, Shopping campaigns capture the shoppers who browse products, and Performance Max extends both when the account has the data to support it.
Merchant Center setup
- Merchant Center is the backbone of Shopping ads.
- The product feed is the data file that tells Google what you sell: titles, descriptions, prices, availability, images, categories and identifiers.
- Optimisation goes beyond getting products approved.
I clean the feed at the source, working with how your platform exports data so the fixes are permanent rather than manual patches.
Campaign structure and bidding
- With a clean feed, the campaigns have something to work with.
- Bidding on Shopping is about understanding your data.
- One of the biggest levers in Shopping is knowing which products deserve the spend.
- Most catalogues follow a power curve: a small share of products produces most of the sales.
Australian retail context
- Australian retail has its own patterns.
- One local pattern worth naming: Australian shoppers compare relentlessly across devices.
- The other local reality is seasonality.
Australian retail demand does not move with the northern hemisphere calendar, and accounts built on imported playbooks routinely overspend in the wrong months.
Clients I Have Worked With
GT Access Garage Doors
Conversions up 178% with an average conversion rate of 30.75%.
Glass Creations
Conversions up 357%, average cost per click down 71% over 12 months.
Let's Go Family Day Care
Conversions up 357% by month 2 on a $500 monthly budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Products Not Showing When Shoppers Search?
If you run an online store and your products are not showing when shoppers search, book a free 30-minute Strategy Session. We will look at your Merchant Center, your feed and where the leaks are. No pitch deck, no obligation.
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