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November 17, 2025

# Does Facebook Catalog Feed Still Matter in 2026?

Short answer: yes, but not for the reason it used to.

The old thinking was: Reusing a Google Merchant feed verbatim without checking Meta's specific field requirements, which differ in several subtle but rejection-causing ways. That framing is dated — search engines have gotten much better at figuring things out without hand-holding. But 'search engines can cope without it' isn't the same as 'it doesn't matter.'

What actually changed is who benefits. Use `in stock` / `out of stock` exactly as Meta expects for availability — subtly different casing or wording from a Google-formatted feed can cause silent rejection. That's less about appeasing an algorithm and more about not wasting the crawl/attention you already have.

The practical test isn't whether it's trendy — it's whether skipping it creates work for someone else later (a crawler, a future you, a user). By that test, Facebook Catalog feed still earns its place.

Same question, different tool: does product feed validation still matter?

Facebook Product Feed Generator either way — checking takes longer to read about than to do.

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