Google Adds Products To Business Profile Guidelines

Google has added a new section for products to the Google Business Profile guidelines. The section says “If you run a retail business, you can show nearby shoppers what you sell by adding your in-store products to your Business Profile at no charge.”

You can see those guidelines over here that say:

You can add in-store products to your Business Profile in two ways:

• Manually upload your products with the Product Editor.
• Simply add your products with Pointy.

Both methods must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Products submitted via Product Editor or Pointy must adhere to the Shopping Ads Policy.
• We do not allow content related to regulated products and services, including alcohol, tobacco products, gambling, financial services, pharmaceuticals and unapproved supplements, or health/medical devices.
• Submitting products that violate Google’s policy may result in removal of the entire product catalog, including products that aren’t in violation.

Stefan Somborac spotted this and posted it on Twitter:

Google updated the Guidelines for Business Profiles with a new section: Products.

Google wants you to add product information to your Business Profiles!

Either:
1.) Manually add products with Product Editor (in your Business Profile)
– OR –
2.) Add products using Pointy

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— Stefan Somborac (@StefanSomborac) August 30, 2022

Read the new Products section in the Guidelines document here:https://t.co/GJPpx9UCtI

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— Stefan Somborac (@StefanSomborac) August 30, 2022

Forum discussion at Twitter.