Comments on: Google Trusted Stores – What’s Involved for Merchants https://www.lexiconn.com/blog/2012/06/google-trusted-stores-whats-involved-for-merchants/ All about e-Commerce, ShopSite, and Web Hosting Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.1 By: Bob https://www.lexiconn.com/blog/2012/06/google-trusted-stores-whats-involved-for-merchants/#comment-25651 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:02:11 +0000 http://www.lexiconn.com/blog/?p=5014#comment-25651 I would like to say a word about the e-mail that had this link: “The Google Trusted Stores program is designed to help shoppers feel confident in their purchases across the web”

All these services talk about giving confidence to the shopper. For some merchants that may be true, but I’ve tracked the number of times people click on the assorted logos supplied that gives “confidence,” and it’s small.

Google is trying to become indispensable for web shopping. Although I’m a big Google fan, there’s something fishy about this Google program. I agree with Cheryl about how it could hurt small people like us. There’s something too intrusive about this google program. At least that’s my view.

]]> By: Cheryl https://www.lexiconn.com/blog/2012/06/google-trusted-stores-whats-involved-for-merchants/#comment-24471 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:59:13 +0000 http://www.lexiconn.com/blog/?p=5014#comment-24471 Between this and Google Product Search/Google Shopping soon becoming being a paid service, it is just another nail in the small business owner’s coffin.

How in the world am I going to find time to send all this information to Google in order to become a Trusted Store and also manage paid Product Ads with the new Google Shopping? The larger companies have more money to pay for competitive keywords; thus, driving out the small business owner. Also, larger companies that can dedicate staff to submit all the required accurate data to Google Trusted Stores have an advantage over small business owners.

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