Marketing is scary for a solo developer

Re:Marketing is scary for a solo developer by dangrossman on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:42PM (#29542790)

There's no ad involved. It's just a product feed for Google Shopping that's auto-generated by Shopify, so the product details match the website always. Here's the store: https://ligninandlight.com/

Google's customer support just provides form responses linking to this policy my store violates: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150127?hl=en

But they won't provide any concrete information specific to my store, and I can't figure out what they're hung up on. I talked to a Shopify expert and they told me to make sure I have a contact page, refund policy and accept credit cards -- all of which I do.

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Re:Marketing is scary for a solo developer by dhimes on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:24PM (#29545464)

So, I looked at this and the only thing I can see is that the price doesn't update as you add options (larger size, engraving) etc., until you add to cart and then view the cart. So G may think that's misleading: It's not going to cost me $23 but $35.

Your shop looks very nice, actually. Cool and thoughtful stuff.

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Re:Marketing is scary for a solo developer by konschubert on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:16AM (#29549763)

Sorry to bother, but just in case you have the time, since I’m having the same issue as GP, could you also have a look at https://shop.invisible-computers.com ?

As I mentioned above, my google merchant center account also got suspended twice.

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Re:Marketing is scary for a solo developer by datavirtue on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:11PM (#29547360)

Sounds like Google is now the defacto business regulator...but only for small businesses.

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Re:Marketing is scary for a solo developer by konschubert on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:42PM (#29546249)

Same here. I have Shopify connected to google merchant center.

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