Your products must be approved so that you can use them in local inventory ads and free local product listings. To get approval, products must contain all required attributes and follow Shopping ads policies.
Benefits
A higher number of approved products can positively influence the performance of ads and free listings that show your local products.
How to see approval status
To determine what actions to take, review the list of products and errors in your Merchant Center account. To see errors, follow the instructions below:
- Sign in to your Merchant Center account.
- Select Products on the navigation menu, then click Diagnostics.
- Click the Item issues tab to view current issues affecting your products.
To download a list (.csv) of all affected products for all issues:
- Click the download button
next to the filter button
, beneath the graph and above the list of issues.
To download a list (.csv) of all affected products for a particular issue:
- Find the issue under the “Issue” column, then click the download button
To view a list of up to 50 products with this particular issue:
- Find the issue under the “Issue” column, then click View examples in the “Affected items” column.