{"id":17447,"date":"2016-03-21T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/?p=17447"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:50:23","slug":"gtin-obligatorio-google-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/blog\/gtin-mandatory-google-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory GTIN code in Google Shopping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"17447\" class=\"elementor elementor-17447\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f8ea11d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"7f8ea11d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fa7da99\" data-id=\"fa7da99\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4aabe146 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4aabe146\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Postpone all the pending items on the \"urgent\" list; because as of May 16, 2016 it will be absolutely MANDATORY for all advertisers who want to promote their products on Google Shopping to provide the system with the <strong>GTIN code<\/strong> of all its products. Up to now, this code was only mandatory for items of the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/merchants\/answer\/6239390?hl=es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 brands designated by Google<\/a> last summer. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, and as the Internet and communication giant itself has announced to all its partners, this requirement <strong>is extended to all products<\/strong> (obviously only those in which this number exists; thus excluding manufactured goods or those products that are not from the retail branch), leaving a short margin of just over two months for advertisers to add this information to their data feeds.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/requisitos-de-gastos-de-envio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as we anticipated in our blog<\/a>Since last February, the number of advertisers in Google Shopping has been reduced due to the large number of e-commerce companies that did not include their products in Google Shopping. <strong>shipping costs at Google Merchant Center<\/strong>Despite Google's advance notice, it is expected that, once again, many businesses will be affected by this new requirement.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/\">Geotelecom<\/a> We have already warned all our customers of the urgency of this major change, and although the date two months away seems far away, the truth is that time flies, and any anticipation will be more than welcome.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What good will this new requirement do for advertisers on Google Shopping?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the incorporation of the <strong>mandatory GTIN code<\/strong> in all products that want to be published on Google Shopping, it is expected that the comparison between identical products will be much more accurate, grouping them based on this single numerical criterion and avoiding other more ambiguous criteria such as mpn (product part number) or brand.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you ready to face these changes? \u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postpone all the pending items on the \"urgent\" list; because from May 16, 2016 it will be totally MANDATORY for all advertisers who want to promote their products on Google Shopping to provide the system with the GTIN code of all their products. Until now this code was only mandatory for items from the 50 brands designated by Google last summer.  \n\n\n\nHowever, as the Internet and communication giant itself has announced to all its partners, this requirement has been extended to all products (obviously only those for which this number exists; thus excluding manufactured goods or those products that are not from the retail branch), leaving a brief margin of just over two months for advertisers to add this information to their data feeds.\n\n\n\nIf, as we anticipated in our blog, since last February the number of advertisers in Google Shopping has been reduced due to the large number of e-commerce that did not include their shipping costs in Google Merchant Center, it is expected that, despite the advance notice from Google, many businesses will again be affected by this new requirement.\n\n\n\nFrom Geotelecom we have already warned all our customers of the urgency of this major change, and although the date two months away seems distant, the truth is that time flies, and any anticipation will be more than grateful.\n\n\n\nWhat good will this new requirement do for advertisers in Google Shopping?\n\n\n\nThanks to the incorporation of the mandatory GTIN code in all products that want to be published on Google Shopping, it is expected that the comparison between identical products will be much more accurate, grouping them based on this unique numeric criterion and avoiding other more ambiguous ones such as the mpn (product part number) or the brand.\n\n\n\nAre you ready to face these changes? \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":19094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[26,24],"tags":[148,57,64],"class_list":["post-17447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google-ads","category-google-shopping","tag-google-adwords-2","tag-google-shopping-2","tag-gtin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232542,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions\/232542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geotelecom.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}