Google seems to be having a bit of an issue with spam getting into its popular products section. This may be fed in through Google Merchant Center or normal rich results – I am not 100% sure. But here is a screenshot showing one company listing the same product over and over again, even though it should be 10 different stores.
This was shared by Brian Freiesleben on X who wrote, “Yikes. Looks like there’s a spam problem within Google’s Popular Product Listings.”
Brodie Clark replied:
Brian replied to that:
Personally, I was unable to replicate this spammy result a few days after it was posted. So maybe, just maybe, Google got it under control???
Forum discussion at X.
Update: More of this:
