
This lecture provides an overview of what the student will learn by taking this course.
This lecture provides instruction on the initial setup of your Google Merchant Center account.
The Google Merchant Center has some stringent rules about the posting of business logos. This lecture provides information on those rules and shows the student step by step how acceptable logos can be created using Adobe Photoshop.
To complete a Google Merchant Center setup process, one important step that is required is to register and verify your ownership of your business website. This video shows you how to do it.
This lecture teaches the student step by step how to create and upload product information to the Google Merchant Center.
Here is a great FTP/SFTP file upload tool you can get for no cost. The video discusses this tool and shows the student how to use it.
This document provides the product data specification information you will need to create your product feeds to the Google Merchant Center.
This lecture describes how to set up - or not set up if your situation dictates this - tax in the Google Merchant Center. USA Nexus rules are discussed as are certain rules for setting up in Canada plus brief discussion on other countries. This is a very useful video for those setting up an online business locally and internationally where products are sold.
This lecture provides an overview of the process you will need to go through to setup shipping charges and rates for the products that you sell from your home, store or warehouse.
This lecture teaches the student how to link in Google AdWords, E-Commerce Platforms, and Google My Business - needed to make local storefront ads and the Google Express interface operative.
Provides detailed instructions for uploading bulk store locations into the Google Merchant Center - required for local storefront ads and Google Express.
This video teaches the student step by step how to interface a Shopify Store with the Google Merchant Center and how to upload product information to it so Google AdWords ads can be placed.
Organizations with physical store locations and or warehouses have the opportunity to join Google Express to enhance their sales and product delivery efforts. Extending to mobile devices as well, participants in Google Express will obtain some great selling and local delivery tools for their business ventures. This video discusses how this all works.
If you have a local "Brick and Mortar" storefront, you can use this Google Merchant Center add-on feature to create powerful local ads that consumers can view on the fly to get directions to your store, be notified of local sales, learn if you have available inventory available of a product they are interested in purchasing, and can find out your store's hours of business. Be sure to watch this video lecture to learn how to set this up for your storefront - it will bring you additional walk-in business!
Teaches the student how to create dynamic re-marketing ad campaigns that target prior visitors to their websites.
Implementing Merchant Promotions and Special Offers is not a difficult task if you know the steps to take. This lecture walks you through those steps so you can get these types of advertisements working for your business.
Now that you have setup your Google Merchant Center account and have uploaded your product feeds, you are ready to create some standout Shopping ad campaigns. This video lecture walks you through this process so be sure to view it.
Uploading and keeping your website sitemap current within the Google Webmaster Console keeps Google informed that you exists and plays a major part in your site's pages and content being found organically via the Google Search Engine. This is an important thing to do for all online business owners looking for website traffic as over 70% of all online organic end user searches go through the Google Search engine.
Submitting video sitemaps via the Google Webmaster Console I am told will increase the search visibility of your website pages by over 60%. Watch this video lecture to learn how to create and submit these sitemaps to improve your business visibility online.
Once your sitemaps have been registered within Google, it is important to use the Google Webmaster Console what your searchable webpages are as well which you do through a tool called "Fetch as Google". This video lecture walks you through this process which you should be doing separately for both your standard desktop viewable webpages as well as for you your mobile webpages.
Google made some significant changes to their search engine in 2017. Watch this video to see how these changes may have impacted your business and being found organically via their search engine.
Congratulations on completing the course. Here are a few more courses I am offering that you can take at discount to further your education even more. Best wishes, - Dan
"To advertise your products on Google, you need a Merchant Center Account" - this is a direct quote from Google.
This course teaches the student how to setup a Google Merchant Center Account, enter product information into it, verify and integrate the Merchant Center with your website, integrate it with Google AdWords and create powerful AdWords pay per click adds that will separate you from competitor adds. If you want your products to be advertised within the Google world so people can find your products and site, this is a process you must complete and implement. I will also show you within this course how to implement and integrate Google Express which will allow people to easily view, purchase and get shipped the products you have uploaded to your Merchant Center account.
Augmenting this training that will show you how to set up your Merchant Account environment, I have included three key lectures on improving the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that I previously published in another of my courses on the Udemy platform. These three SEO lectures will give you some great tips that will allow you to fare significantly better in having the Shopping Pages on your website rank within the Google Search Engines. In fact, by completing these additional tasks described within these three lectures, you will be able to do your Google AdWords pay per click at reduced cost per click rates, saving you money each time someone clicks on one of your adds so do not fail to implement these additional steps.
Google does have a significant amount of textual help within its training environment that you can also refer to but it is a lot of reading and piecing together of this content that you will need to go through in order to understand it all and complete the required setup and integration tasks. What I have done is learned their system and have created these videos to provide you with more of a step by step visual and audio narrative of what you need to do to get up and running. This course you will find is easier to digest and will save you time in the learning and it will be a less frustrating experience for some.
So if you have not as yet integrated the Google Merchant Center with your online shopping site or store, I encourage you to take this course and do so.
I look forward to seeing you on the inside.
Best wishes,
- Dan Grijzenhout - Course Creator