Shopify should add ASIN field to index

Shopify Discussion
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Currently shopify supports UPC but I believe even the basic theme should support ASIN field and allow it to be indexed by google and if the end goal is to siphon as many sales away from Amazon as possible. We have our own product line on our shopify store and Amazon. If someone searches our Amazon ASIN on google I would prefer our shopify store to show up in the search results.

2

ASIN is only used by Amazon, it doesn’t make sense. Also I don’t know anyone who would google an ASIN. usually a consumer would search the product name.

3

You could create an ASIN metafield and display it on your product page.

You could also add structured data. Something like this

<script type="application/ld+json">

{

  "@context": "https://schema.org/",

  "@type": "Product",

  "name": "{{ product.title }}",

  "sku": "{{ product.selected_or_first_available_variant.sku }}",

  {% if product.metafields.custom.amazon_asin != blank %}

  "identifier": [

    {

      "@type": "PropertyValue",

      "propertyID": "ASIN",

      "value": "{{ product.metafields.custom.amazon_asin }}"

    }

  ],

  {% endif %}

  ...

}

</script>

As with everything in Google, it’s not guaranteed to display it, but it would help Google understand the relationship.

5

Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea as you rish to your keyboard to put it down. Anything that is unique to your page listing on Amazon can be searched for and if you can add anything at all to possibly bring people to you instead of Amazon then it is worth a little effort.

6

Thank you for taking the time to post. How where would I implement this? Thank you

7

What do you mean I don’t understand? You want Shopify to include ASIN so Google can Index it correct? I’m gonna assume you also mean Google’s Merchant Listing.

If you took the time to look at Google’s Rich Results identifier’s. Google does not focus on ASIN.

Google currently uses: GTIN, Brand, MPN, SKU.

like @Maximus3 said you can add it to your schema as Schema.org does have a ASIN property but it doesn’t mean Google is gonna use it the same way it uses GTIN or Brands.

If you want Google to hopefully show up your product when people are searching the ASIN then you should add it to your product description or something similar when google crawls and index your page and that is also not guaranteed.

So yes, I stand by what i said earlier that it doesn’t make sense because ASIN is not something Google accepts at the moment. If Google does accept ASIN, then YES it would make sense.