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Practical feed comparison: Facebook catalog vs Google Shopping
Sep 18, 2026 9 min read

Practical feed comparison: Facebook catalog vs Google Shopping

You sell the same products on Google Shopping and Meta Ads, but your product feed keeps getting disapproved on one and accepted on the other. The core data is identical, so you are left wondering why two channels treat the same catalog so differently.

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Muhammad Norafif
Differences between Google and Meta product data
Sep 14, 2026 10 min read

Differences between Google and Meta product data

You exported one feed from Shopify, pointed it at Google Merchant Center and Meta Commerce Manager, and watched both platforms complain about different things. Same products. Same data. Two different sets of rejections. The problem is not your catalog. It is the assumption that one feed serves two a

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Muhammad Norafif
What to do when GTIN is missing
Sep 14, 2026 10 min read

What to do when GTIN is missing

Your Google Merchant Center dashboard lights up with a missing-GTIN warning and the first instinct is to paste a barcode into the feed so the error goes quiet. That impulse is exactly what gets accounts suspended. The fix has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with provenance.

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Muhammad Norafif
Understanding GTIN and product identifiers
Sep 14, 2026 8 min read

Understanding GTIN and product identifiers

You stare at the Google Merchant Center feed spec, see "gtin" required, and wonder whether the barcode on the box is the same thing as the SKU in your Shopify admin. You are not alone. GTIN is the single most misunderstood field in product feeds, and guessing wrong here gets your items paired with s

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Muhammad Norafif
When GTIN is required and recommended in Google Merchant Center
Sep 14, 2026 8 min read

When GTIN is required and recommended in Google Merchant Center

You opened Merchant Center this morning and half your feed is flagged for missing GTINs. The dashboard makes it sound like every product needs one. It does not. The rule is narrower than the warning suggests, and merchants who understand the actual boundary stop guessing and start fixing the right r

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Muhammad Norafif
Why ecommerce businesses need structured product data
Sep 10, 2026 8 min read

Why ecommerce businesses need structured product data

Your Shopify store has 20,000 products and they look perfect on your site. Now you need those same products on Google Merchant Center, Meta, TikTok Shop, and Amazon, and every platform wants the data shaped differently. One catalog is not enough. You need a product data feed.

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Muhammad Norafif
How product feeds work behind the scenes
Sep 9, 2026 13 min read

How product feeds work behind the scenes

You exported a CSV, uploaded it to Google Merchant Center, and 400 products came back with errors you have never seen before. The feed looked fine in Shopify. Something happened between your store and the destination, and nobody told you what it was.

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Muhammad Norafif
Beginner explanation of product feeds
Sep 8, 2026 9 min read

Beginner explanation of product feeds

You built a Shopify store, you loaded your products, and now Google Shopping says it cannot find your items. The problem is not your products. The problem is the bridge between your store and the advertising platform. That bridge is a product feed.

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Muhammad Norafif
Feed management best practices — maintaining healthy feeds
Sep 7, 2026 11 min read

Feed management best practices — maintaining healthy feeds

You set up the product feed once, exports ran on schedule, and for a while everything looked fine. Then one morning half your Google Shopping items are disapproved, the ad team is asking why spend dropped, and nobody can pinpoint when it started.

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Muhammad Norafif
How to structure Google Shopping titles for relevance
Sep 7, 2026 11 min read

How to structure Google Shopping titles for relevance

You shipped a product feed with 4,000 items and the traffic coming back looks like it searched for the wrong store entirely. Shoppers click through on sizes you don't carry, colors you never stocked, and variants that belong to a different brand. The problem usually sits in the first 70 characters o

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Muhammad Norafif
Sep 4, 2026 13 min read

Common Merchant Center errors and what they mean

You opened Merchant Center this morning and the Diagnostics tab says 427 items have issues. Half of them sound like the same problem described three different ways. The other half reference attributes you are not sure you even set.

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Muhammad Norafif

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