Google Merchant Center Suspended

Technical Q&A
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Good evening

I have connected the shopify store to Google Merchant Center using the Google & Youtube App. But the Google merchant center account is suspended

The products are all visible in Google Merchant center but all marked ‘Not Approved’.

I started manually adding the product variant URL to each product in Google Merchant Center (which have become approved_ - but there are too many.

Is there a quicker way to approve all the products and lift the suspension?

Richard

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Hi Richard! Unfortunately there’s no quick or bulk way to approve products while your Google Merchant Center account is suspended. Manually approving product URLs won’t lift the suspension and isn’t scalable.

You’ll need to:

  1. Check Account issues in Google Merchant Center to see the exact suspension reason
  2. Fix the underlying policy or setup issue in Shopify (business info, shipping, returns, domain verification, misrepresentation, etc.)
  3. Request an account review

Once the suspension is lifted, eligible products will be approved automatically.

The Google & YouTube app only syncs the feed — it can’t override Merchant Center policy enforcement.

Hope this helps.

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hi Richard.

can you please share what’s the reason for account suspension? which policy violation did Google highlight via email, account notification, or any other channel?

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And what are the reasons for it saying not approved? You can check here: Promote Your Business with Merchant Center - Google for Retail

5

sorry, it’s Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation

Prevents all products from showing in United Kingdom

During the review you requested on Jan 5, 2026, Google found this to still be an issue. Make sure you meet the requirements before you request another review from Jan 7, 2026.

Based on the information available about your business, there is reason to believe that customers are being misled on Google. Review the Misrepresentation policy and make changes to your Merchant Center and/or online store.

Make sure your Merchant Center and online store follow the following best practices / guidelines

  • Provide transparency about your business identity, business model, policies and how your customers can interact with you

  • Promote your online reputation by showing reviews or highlighting any badges or seals of approval

  • Use a professional design for your online store that includes an SSL certificate

  2. Provide information in the business information settings in your Merchant Center

  • Follow SEO guidelines, improve your eligibility for seller ratings and match your product data in your Merchant Center with your online store

Learn more about the Misrepresentation policy

Google found this issue through automated checks

You can request a review again on Jan 7, 2026

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Misrepresentation. Lots of products are missing the product link url (there are lots of them for the different variants). I’m trying to find a way to fix the links without doing them individually (one product at a time)

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Misrepresentation will not be due to missing links. Misrepresentation will be due to something missing on your website, such as business details, or missing policy links, missing content, or even your business model.

There can be many reasons over 200 in fact, and as you most likely already discovered, Google doesn’t share any specifics. The best way to increase your chances of getting approved is to resolve all possible issues.

To find them, have a look at the guides and policies below:

https://support.google.com/google-ads/community-video/318699100

https://support.google.com/merchants/community-video/379501229

https://support.google.com/google-ads/community-guide/304792695

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150127

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6363310/follow-the-merchant-center-guidelines

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/4752265

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/13693865

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6149970

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/9158778

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6150244

https://support.google.com/google-ads/community-guide/241068758

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manually approving each product is fixing a symptom not the cause. when products show as “not approved” but become approved when you add the variant URL manually, that almost always means your feed is sending product URLs that resolve differently than the canonical pages google indexes. usually one of three things:

  1. your feed is using the base product URL but the actual purchasable page is a variant URL that requires a query parameter (?variant=12345). google checks the base URL, sees no price/availability for the specific variant, marks not approved.

  2. your store has multiple language or currency contexts and the feed URL is in one but google is crawling from another, finding a redirect or a different page.

  3. structured data on the product page is missing or different from what google expects for that product variant.

the systematic fix is to verify in google merchant center diagnostics that the URL it crawled matches the URL in your feed, and that page resolves to a product page (not a category, not a 404) when fetched from a fresh non-logged-in session. shopify google channel app sometimes uses the wrong URL for variant-heavy stores.