Datakick module and Google feed - wrong image beint sent and question about shipping costs

[30knees]

Hi @datakick,

For some products (not all), it looks like the datakick feed is sending a tiny image preview to Google Merchant Center instead of the original. How can I fix this?

Also, is there a way to automatically send shipping costs per country to Google Merchant Center?

Thanks

[x97wehner]

I have two separate feeds setup for our store. One for each country we sell to. That way it sends the correct links, images, and prices to google for the country. The xml for each is attached. It sends full size photos.

US feed.xml CA feed.xml

Edited June 11 by x97wehner

[30knees]

Thank you, @x97wehner! 

I realised when downloading your XML that I can check the links provided in the feed. And they're fine. So I don't understand why Google is complaining / or even how Google is getting the wrong image size.

[the.rampage.rado]

Check if sitemap module is set to offer larger image than the small version.

[Kenneth Ong]

Tiny preview images issue:

This usually happens when the feed is referencing thumbnail or cached images. To fix it, make sure image_link pulls the original high-res image. You can correct this in datakick or override it with a supplemental feed or rule

[30knees]

The problem was that Google was also crawling the page and taking those images instead of the ones in the feed. Crawling is now deactivated and the images are being correctly pulled from the feed.

[the.rampage.rado]

What do you mean by 'disabled'? 

[30knees]

It is what the ad agency wrote. There must be a setting somewhere.

[the.rampage.rado]

Hopefully your SERP rankings wont suffer from this.

[30knees]

On 6/11/2025 at 2:59 PM, x97wehner said:

I have two separate feeds setup for our store. One for each country we sell to. That way it sends the correct links, images, and prices to google for the country. The xml for each is attached. It sends full size photos.

US feed.xml 3.81 kB · 5 downloads CA feed.xml 3.58 kB · 1 download

It looks like your feed also does not send the shipping weight. Is this correct or did I not see it in the xml?

[x97wehner]

7 hours ago, 30knees said:

It looks like your feed also does not send the shipping weight. Is this correct or did I not see it in the xml?

It does not. 

[30knees]

@datakickI have been unable to add the shipping weight to the feed. Could you support, please?

[datakick]

The standard template that datakick module installs do not contain shipping weight by default.

You can very easily add it, though.

GMC documentation https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324503?hl=en tells us that they are looking for element like this

<g:shipping_weight>3 kg</g:shipping_weight> 

So let's edit the template, and add this element under <entry> node

To get data in correct format, you need to use the expression 

product.packageWeight + " kg"

Note that you need to do this twice if you are using GMC template for combinations, as there are two <entry> nodes in template, one for products without combinations, one for products with combination. In this case, you will need to use different expression in second node:

combination.packageWeight + " kg"

You can download this template:  gmc-with-weight.json and install it into your datakick module, as an inspiration