Google Shopping and Performance Max

Product campaigns in Google Shopping, and Merchant Center at large scale.

For a modern online shop, product campaigns (Google Shopping and Performance Max) are the main source of revenue. We make the assortment earn the most from every auction, whether it holds 500 products or 500,000.

A dark still life, a box, a bottle, and fabric in orange light

Three costly mistakes of a large catalog.

  1. 1

    Everything in one campaign

    The algorithm puts 80% of the budget on 5% of the most popular products, often the low-margin ones, and ignores the rest of the catalog.

  2. 2

    Zombie products

    Thousands of valuable products get not a single impression in a month.

  3. 3

    Merchant Center disapprovals

    A missing GTIN, a wrong tax, a price mismatch, or a weak photo blocks the key assortment.

Scope

Merchant Center and Google Shopping.

Account

Merchant Center setup and audit

Domain verification and claiming.

Shipping rules, free-delivery thresholds, tax rates, and company details.

A link to Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, and business profiles.

Product data

Feed engineering

Primary feeds through the API, XML, CSV, Google Sheets, or a scheduled fetch.

Supplemental feeds add EAN, GTIN, labels, and promotions without waiting for the shop developers.

Feed rules rewrite titles, map google_product_category, and replace wrong attributes.

custom_label_0 to custom_label_4

Custom labels

Margin: a high margin gets an aggressive Target ROAS, a low margin a stricter profit requirement.

Price and basket: cheap accessories apart from expensive core products.

Turnover: bestsellers, a sale, new arrivals, and end of line.

Quiet products get their own sub-campaign and a low CPC, so they enter the auction at all.

Diagnostics

Disapprovals and suspensions

A reading of the warnings on the Diagnostics card.

Unnatural promotions, a feed price that does not match the basket, and missing unique identifiers.

A defence against account suspension.

Build

From scratch to sales.

From scratch

Shop engine

WooCommerce, PrestaShop, or a custom platform.

Payments and stock

Integrations

PayU, Przelewy24, Stripe, InPost, Furgonetka, and Baselinker.

Law and consent

Compliance

Omnibus, the terms, the privacy policy, and Consent Mode v2.

SEO and performance

Speed and the path

Fast code, Schema.org Product, Offer, and Review, and a one-page checkout.

Questions

My feed has more than 100,000 products and the XML file is too heavy. How do you handle that?

Compression, a split of feeds by category, or the Google Merchant API (REST). Prices and stock come down incrementally in a few seconds, without a giant XML.

How does a product campaign in Performance Max differ from the old Standard Shopping?

Performance Max adds Search, YouTube, Gmail, and the Display network on top of Shopping. It needs sharper asset-group segmentation and brand exclusions, so the budget is not burned.