Can Google shopping listings affect SEO rankings?
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Hello everyone.
Here is my question: Until 4 weeks ago we used to have just around 2,000 product/pages on Google shopping of our product pages, then we added over 40,000 more items/pages to it, and our Google natural search rankings dropped on most of our long-tail keywords pointing to the same product pages.
Do you think that's just coincidence or could the number of products/pages on Google shopping affect natural search results?
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That's what I thought, I wanted just to have confirmation about that.
Thanks!
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Hi Fabrizo
That is just coincidence. Google paid advertising/shopping doesn't affect organic listing.
Thanks
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