Thanks for this very helpful ‘tutorial.’ When it’s still in draft mode, it said it fixed the issue. So I saved/applied the draft rules. For a while, the diagnostics showed it still to be an issue, but then after about 15 minutes the issues disappeared from the diagnostics list! Fingers crossed.
Thank you for sharing your fix - although why don’t I see “feeds” after clicking on products in Merchant Center?
Hi Clarice,
Thanks for sharing your content!
For some reason, my merchant centre doesn’t display the measurement field when editing products. Do you know why?
Claricelin I think your talking about another issue what the people above and I are referring to are the way the price is displayed and currency in merchant center compared to the website. I will explain further here to why I say that. When i apply the fix wrong for what Claricelin suggested two more failed attributes pop up on merchant center for that field. Once I add it correctly those two new attribute warnings go away but not the ones pertaining to the price whole numbers and currency those are still there.
(Invalid real number [unit pricing measure]…and…Invalid whole number [unit pricing base measure]. So when you click on more info these two warning pertain to price showing up like this on website $22.00 and like this on merchant center $22) even though the information is perfect on the site, somewhere the schema info is changing. I also have the image warning flags on most of my products that seem to have something to do with the googlebot crawling wrong. These are multiple issue popping up at the most inconvenient time. As of right now I do not have a solution to this except for waiting on google or shopify, in the meantime feed rules are there for you to try and resolve this but I do not know the correct info to put in. Hopefully someone can point us in the correct way to do so.
When you click on Products, it should open a drop down list underneath. That is where you should see ‘Feeds’ if you truly have Shopify connected to merchant center. On the right is what should display after you click FEEDS. Content API should be your shopify feed:
That mil/kg issue you need to address will be interesting. on all our products, the price is per the product, so 1ct worked for us. I’d be interested in your solution on that. We haven’t run into a situation like that…yet. Good luck and keep us posted!
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My example of entering ‘1ct’ in those fields applies if the price on your product is what someone pays when they purchase ONE. All our products are priced like this. We try doing things as simple as possible. Just thought I would clarify. ‘1ct’ may not work for everyone. If you google the field names, there is good documentation on what values are acceptable in these fields.
I also watched this video that explains what those 2 fields are and how google uses them. it really helped me understand what they do with the info in them.
You might want to create a standalone question on your issue. It will get more attention that way.
Agreed. I always tend to wait a while for results when I change something in Google. I even keep checking days later. Sometimes it s takes quite a while for google to re-check what I did and the daggone errors show up again a week later. I hope this one sticks!!
What does this have to do with the original question? I thought we were trying to resolve the Invalid Attribute Value [image link] error?
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Hi Sap, I seem to have gotten lost on this thread - several issues are now conflated here. Did you find a solution for the “Invalid Attribute Value [image link]” ?? I"m getting the disallow thing too. TIA - J.
You are right. This morphed into an answer on another questions someone
asked in the same thread. It should have been separated out. Happens alot.
product liquid, this is the updated one, add measure,
just be sure to understand that this code is only if you sell single items that are not measured by size/weight ect… Oz of a soda, length of a rope, sf of concrete ect. if you sell things like that you will have to use Metafields to populate for google.
agreed they normally do crap like this in July and give us to September to have it coded, this was intentional
Thanks for this I will see if it helps my issue as well, also sorry if I confused anyone there are similar issues with that attribute that lead me here. Fingers crossed, I wish in the future google would not do these changes right before Q4 because of the timing makes me feel like they did this on purpose. Would be a very easy way to restrict some listings and thin out products in search.
I have an issue aswell but I get products errors in Google merchant saying:
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Invalid integer [base quantity unit price]
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Invalid real number [quantity unit price]
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Missing unit [unit price quantity]
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Missing unit [base quantity unit price]
Does anyone else have this problem?
Also looking for the solution to this problem. Came here for this issue, as I’ve been trying to figure it out and fix it for weeks now. I’ve tried renaming and re-uploading the product image, and then changing the URL. Did not fix the “Invalid Attribute Value [image link]” problem.
I only have this issue through the app on Shopify, but when I setup products through the merchant center, there is no issue. Everything has been accepted and products are getting placed. Not sure what the issue is on the app in Shopify.
I used the mentioned rule fix for the price issue it’s working for now. As far as the image fix no luck there other than manually sending a request in merchant center one at a time. It does seem to affect other variants once they fix it. But I have over 150 products with over 3000 variants and about ten images for each product I would be there for a year fixing these. I really hate this game google is playing, real cheap shot wish we could counter it but what can you do when your a small shop!
I only have 1 to 2 images on the majority of my products. They are all clear images, in the right format. When created in the merchant center, no issues. The same images are used when creating a merchant center through the app, and it claims to be invalid. I’ve sent an email to google support about this 2 weeks ago and still haven’t heard back.
I have the exact same thing and have gone through the mill a lot with Google in the last few months. I’ve only been on shopify since around October 2024. Did you find a fix?