Measuring and Optimising Your Free Google Shopping Listings Performance
How to Create New Custom Reports and Custom Dashboards in Google Merchant Center
We previously reported on Google’s generous ‘free listings’ programme several months ago. It’s likely that you’re already participating and your listings are appearing for free across Google Surfaces, including: the Shopping tab, Google Search, Google Images, Google Maps and Google Lens.
New reporting capabilities have recently been added to the Google Merchant Center UI so it may be beneficial for many businesses to start using the new features and include free listings in their marketing strategy.
How do I access free listing performance?
Head to your Google Merchant Center account and select the ‘Overview’ tab. Here you will see your feed diagnostics summary: how many of your products are active, expired, pending or disapproved in your Shopping Ads, Dynamic Remarketing and Free listings feeds. Scroll down to see an overview of your unpaid (free) product performance in the ‘Performance (unpaid)’ card.
Unpaid (free listings) click performance as viewed in the Merchant Center overview
For more granular detail, proceed to the ‘Performance’ tab, then select ‘Dashboard’. Here you can see a summary of your free listings performance in terms of traffic/clicks. You can also check your date range to default or custom date ranges, and compare dates.
Click into ‘Free listings: Traffic’ for a daily performance breakdown:
Performance is also segmented by product, brand and product category:
Your reports – custom report and dashboard creation
Advertisers can now create tables, charts and scorecards – reports and dashboard – directly within Merchant Center to explore performance data.
To build-out your report or dashboard, simply select the dimensions and metrics you want to analyse:
Benefits of creating custom report and dashboards
- Quickly identify any shifts in performance over any specified time period, and compare and contrast performance using date range comparisons.
- Generate daily charts for long-term performance tracking.
- Segment by product ID, product title, product category or custom label.
- If certain products are dominating your Shopping campaign budget and you’d rather ease-off on their spend and traffic, check if you’d be able to rely on their free listing performance.
- Monitor how your shopping feed optimisation efforts affect both paid and free listings.
Does your business need help with running your Google Shopping campaigns?
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