Core attributes
ID, title, description, link, image link, price and availability coverage.
Product Feed Scan uses its general source-feed audit for this workflow, not a Google-specific compliance profile. It checks supported product fields and syntax; it does not connect to Merchant Center or predict approval.
ID, title, description, link, image link, price and availability coverage.
Brand coverage and a warning when both GTIN and MPN are absent. The general audit does not validate GTIN checksums or assignments.
Missing or malformed price and unsupported availability values. Live landing-page price or stock is not fetched.
Missing or syntactically invalid product and image URLs. HTTP availability, dimensions and crawlability require separate verification.
The separate AI Readiness supplement measures declared variant-field coverage; it does not validate Google variant eligibility or cross-row grouping.
Missing or very short titles and descriptions. Length is a data-quality heuristic, not a semantic relevance or duplication check.
Fix blockers first, then catalog-wide patterns, and leave isolated optimization opportunities for last.
Use the same public data source URL you plan to fetch or upload.
Separate file errors, missing attributes and optimization opportunities.
Start with blockers and high-volume issues, then improve content quality.
An external checker can evaluate your source data but cannot see Merchant Center account settings, crawl history, policy reviews, website verification or destination-specific decisions. Use Product Feed Scan alongside—not instead of—Merchant Center diagnostics.
No. The checker can find data and file issues, but approval also depends on your website, account configuration, destinations and Google policies.
The general audit checks ID presence and uniqueness, title and description length, product and image URL syntax, price format, supported availability, brand, GTIN-or-MPN coverage and category presence. It does not certify every conditional Google requirement.
No. The one-time audit analyzes a public feed URL and does not request access to your Google account.
Yes. That is the main use case: review the source feed, fix systemic issues and then upload or schedule it in Merchant Center.
Our public guidance is checked against first-party documentation. Product Feed Scan adds independent data-quality checks and does not represent a platform approval decision.