Google search console reports missing field "image" & "description" in Merchant Listings

[cptX]

Preconditions and environment

• Magento version 2.4.6

Steps to reproduce

Google Search Console reports missing field "image" & "description" in Merchant Listings.

If I visit a product page, meta name="description", meta property="og:image" and meta property="og:description" tags are correctly appearing in the head. But I suppose google reports warning because tags

meta itemprop="image" and meta itemprop="description" are missing. Shouldn't these fields also be populated automatically?

Expected result

Tags meta itemprop="image" and meta itemprop="description" should also be available in the HEAD in order for Google Seach Console to not consider them invalid pages...

Actual result

Google Seach Console considers the product pages invalid in Merchant Listings

Additional information

No response

Release note

No response

Triage and priority

• [ ] Severity: S0 - Affects critical data or functionality and leaves users without workaround.
• [ ] Severity: S1 - Affects critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• [X] Severity: S2 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• [ ] Severity: S3 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and does not force users to employ a workaround.
• [ ] Severity: S4 - Affects aesthetics, professional look and feel, “quality” or “usability”.

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[pinkstond]

Is there a quick/temporary fix I can use for this issue until there's an official fix?

[nicolasbachmaier]

I can confirm that this issue is present on my Magento instances on both 2.3.x and 2.4.x

[Brumagin]

HI guys, same trouble. Has anyone a solution?

[Brumagin]

i found out that the itemprop image code is missing in html code of product page. Using google code tester i can make it work adding such a thing:

IMAGE

https://blablablabla.jpg

Now, which file is responsible to generate this and should be modified in APP of magento?

[Brumagin]

hmm well, my code was modified by the github system :)

[ricomonkeon]

As far as I can tell, Google have only recently started auto-detecting merchant listings, whereas previously you had to submit these, with only product listings being detected automatically. https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/09/merchant-listings

Magento's code has valid schema for products (well, since 2.4). However, it lacks the required image markup for valid merchant listings.

I'd agree that this image field needs adding, as this is going to be a requirement of most shops now that Google have changed how this works.

[Brumagin]

so right now there is no solution? Even with addon?

[ricomonkeon]

Not that I know of. Google only seem to have fully rolled that out since the last version of Magento was released.

You could probably write a template override for module-catalog\view\frontend\templates\product\view\gallery.phtml (I think) so that the appropriate tag appears on the image. However, I'd personally wait until there's an official fix.

Google haven't said that Google Merchant Centre will stop working as a way to submit your products for merchant listing status, so continue doing it that way if you require that functionality. If you didn't do that before, then it should make no difference to how your site appears.

[Brumagin]

Hello, I await answers of some module creators cause their test website are passing google search console test with no errors. This means it is possible to sort this with a module :)

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[Brumagin]

Hi guys, there was a solution to that problem, using a third party module. I used the one of Weltpixel and with some debug of them and my assistance, their last version solved it.

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[trevstar72]

Hi guys, there was a solution to that problem, using a third party module. I used the one of Weltpixel and with some debug of them and my assistance, their last version solved it. @Brumagin I'm having this issue with google reporting missing image fields on my products. Which Weltpixel extension solved your issue?

[Brumagin]

Hi, That one :

https://www.weltpixel.com/magento2-google-rich-cards-free-extension.html

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Hi guys, there was a solution to that problem, using a third party module. I used the one of Weltpixel and with some debug of them and my assistance, their last version solved it.

I'm having this issue with google reporting missing image fields on my products. Which Weltpixel extension solved your issue?

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[engcom-Dash]

Hi @cptX

Thanks for reporting and collaboration.

Can you please provide the detailed steps to reproduce inorder to reproduce the issue.

Thanks

[cptX]

Hi @engcom-Dash there is no point in adding any more information about this. Please read my description carefully and you will understand the issue.

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[engcom-Bravo]

Hi @cptX,

By referring this https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/09/merchant-listings We are considering this as a feature request as improvement to proceed further.

Thanks.

[MagePsycho]

We are also encountering the same error in Rich Snippets:

Missing field "image"

I believe this should be standard and available in the core.

[loic-paquin]

As a quick fix you can edit vendor/magento/module-catalog/view/frontend/templates/product/view/opengraph/general.phtml (or copy the file to your theme)

Replace : <meta property="og:image" content="<?= $block->escapeUrl($block->getImage($block->getProduct(), 'product_base_image')->getImageUrl()) ?>" />

with :

<meta itemprop="image" property="og:image" content="<?= $block->escapeUrl($block->getImage($block->getProduct(), 'product_base_image')->getImageUrl()) ?>" />