guides · the manual diagnosis first, the monitored version after
Field guides to feed failures.
Each guide starts from the symptom you actually see, teaches the honest manual diagnosis, and only then shows what monitoring changes. Useful even if you never install anything.
Google reports landing page errors while the page works for humans
Fixing “product page unavailable” in Google Merchant Center when the page loads fine
Google says your product page is unavailable, but it opens fine in your browser. What Google's crawler actually sees, how to reproduce it, and how to fix each cause.
Titles, prices, or images flip in Google without anyone editing them
Google Shopping shows the wrong title, price, or image and you never changed it
A title, price, or image in Google Shopping changed and you never touched it. When two feed sources run into one Merchant Center account, Google silently picks a winner per product. Why takeovers corrupt your data and how to spot them.
Merchant Center price disagrees with your store, or Google suspends items for price mismatch
Google shows the wrong price for your Shopify products
Price mismatch disapprovals, stale sale prices, and why Google sometimes shows a price you changed days ago. The three places a price lives and how they fall out of step.
A disapproval spike with no deploy, no price change, and no feed edit
Products disapproved in Merchant Center, nothing changed
A wave of disapprovals lands and you changed nothing. Reading GMC item statuses, telling policy issues from data issues, and finding what actually changed.
The Merchant Center item count is lower than your active catalog
Products missing from Google Shopping, Shopify says synced
Your Shopify catalog shows active products, Google shows fewer. Where products go missing between Shopify and Merchant Center, and how to count both sides properly.