No growth-hacking listicles. These are first-party write-ups of real store visibility work: the changes made, the Google and AI search numbers that followed, and the ownership disclosed every time. If a figure comes from a store I own, I will tell you so and show you the dashboard.
Google rejected my misrepresentation reviews four times while I guessed at the cause. A line-by-line audit found an address mismatch and a product that implied a link to a real player. Fixed in three days, cleared the next. The full timeline from Google's own emails.
Disclosed first-party proofMy shop sent its data to another business's analytics, Google Ads reported 698 sales when there were 2, a cookie banner described tracking that was not running, and Google was reading a sitemap from May. What I found, and the 10 minute monthly check I now run.
Disclosed first-party proofMy own Shopify store, Odyssey Camp & Co., run through the same 9-signal audit this site runs on yours. Impressions up four to five times, main pages from page three to page two, and the honest bits too: the click-through dip and the one page that went backwards.
Disclosed first-party proofA whole catalogue of mine was invisible on Google Shopping because one country was missing from the General shipping profile, the only one Google reads. How the split works, the misrepresentation risk hiding underneath, and how to check yours in two minutes.