Push Google to read SEO Description and Description separately

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I have added my website to Google Search Console for optimization and have also synced by products with Google Merchant Center. I have set my store to let SEO Title and SEO Description for SEO but I am getting below warning in Merchant listings:

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I am not sure why is it not able to get the description. Is the detailed description that Google Listings was not able to identify the on-product-page description?

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Hi @fad_su ,

Google Merchant Center isn’t detecting product descriptions because it pulls data from the product feed, not the SEO description. Possible reasons:

  1. Missing Product Description – Ensure all products have a detailed description in Shopify’s Product Description field.
  2. Feed Issue – Check Google Merchant Center → Products → Feeds to see if descriptions are included.
  3. Schema Markup Issue – Use Google’s Rich Results Test to verify if your structured data includes descriptions.
  4. App Conflict – If using a third-party app, ensure it correctly maps descriptions to Google Shopping.
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Hi @oscprofessional

Thank you for your response. Upon checking with Google’s Rich Results, it turns out that Google Merchant Center is reading description in Product Snippet but not in Merchant Listings. I can see that it could read detailed description under Product Snippet

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but showing under Merchant Listing, it shows…

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Is there a fix for this?

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How Google reads product info depends on your setup. I would assume you are uisng a data feed solution? Like maybe google and youtube.

If that is the case, product details include description are pushed from Shopify to Google merchant center, and it is not read from your structured data.

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@EmmanuelFlossie Yes, I am using Google and Youtube shopify app. How can I make Google Merchant Center read the description from the page?

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The google and youtube app uses the description from the normal description field when you add or edit products.

Don’t you have descriptions on your products?

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As I mentioned in one of the previous responses, Google is able to see description in Product Snippets but not in Merchant Listing.

Below is a crawl result of product snippet.

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and this one for Merchant Listing.

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I have detailed description added to each and every product on my website.

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Your confusing different areas.

Strutured data, is only used, and not always, if you are using the Google Merchant Center web crawler.

As you said you are using the google and youtube app, then GMC is using the Shopify internal data.

If the descriptions are missing in Google Merchant Center, that means, either the app has a bug, or you have not added the description in Shopify. (forget about structured data, this is not applicable in this case)

If you have added the descriptions, and the app is not submitting the data, contact Google support: https://support.google.com/merchants/contact/shopify_3p_support_app