Driving more traffic to your website is easier than ever with Google Shopping Ads—especially when you display your product ratings. Utilizing GTIN and structured data automates this process, making it nearly effortless once you upload Lipscore’s XML-feed to Google Merchant Center. However, ensuring that your ratings are displayed correctly is crucial. In this article, we’ll guide you through the steps to make sure your ratings shine on Google Shopping.

Requirements for Displaying Product Ratings

• A minimum of 50 ratings across all products.
• At least 3 ratings per individual product.
• Ratings must be authentic and up-to-date. Data should be refreshed at least monthly but ideally updated as “real-time data” every 24 hours.

How to Verify Your Ratings on Google Shopping

Choose a product that ideally has a minimum of 15 ratings on its product page. Then check if it displays a star rating in Google Shopping search results.

What If Your Ratings Aren’t Showing?

If your star rating is missing from Google Shopping, you can either follow the “Simple Method” or the “Advanced Method.”

The Simple Method

1. Eligibility Check: Confirm that you’re eligible to display ratings in Google Merchant Center. If not, activate this feature there.
2. Review Lipscore Feed: Is your Lipscore feed empty? Make sure the GTIN and transaction data are sent to Lipscore, and that the Lipscore-rating widget is implemented on your product pages.
3. Connect Lipscore Feed to Google Merchant Center: This is usually done as an additional feed. Detailed instructions can be found in Lipscore’s Knowledge Base. Our partner Fullstakk can also assist if needed.
4. Approval Period: Google typically takes about two weeks to approve and display the ratings on Google Shopping.

The Advanced Method

If you’re unable to send GTINs, or your products don’t have GTINs, our partner Fullstakk can help. They can merge data from your Shopping feed and existing Lipscore data (retrieved via API queries) using Metamanager. This creates a separate feed that can be sent to Google Merchant Center. The level of customization depends on your CMS and existing setup.

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