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November 21, 2025

# The Google_Product_Category Checklist: What to Verify Before You Publish

Run through this before you consider google_product_category actually done:

1. Pick the most specific applicable category, not the broadest parent — 'Apparel & Accessories > Shoes > Athletic Shoes' beats just 'Apparel & Accessories' for matching relevance.
2. Use the same taxonomy consistently across every feed (Google, Facebook, Pinterest) for a given product — mismatched categories across platforms confuse cross-channel reporting.
3. Re-check category assignment when Google updates its taxonomy file — categories occasionally get split, merged, or renamed.
4. For products that straddle two categories, pick the one your actual target customer would search under, not the one that feels administratively 'correct'.
5. Double-check this after any site migration or major redesign, not just at launch.

None of these individually take long. The value is in doing all of them, every time, instead of remembering most of them most of the time.

Pair this with the product feed validation checklist if you're doing a fuller pre-launch pass.

Google Product Category Finder runs through most of this automatically.

Try Google Product Category Finder yourself

Everything in this guide runs directly in your browser — no signup, no install.

Open Google Product Category Finder →
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