{"id":9820,"date":"2026-06-12T03:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:08:27","slug":"google-shopping-results-tests-linking-directly-to-merchant-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=9820","title":{"rendered":"Google Shopping Results Tests Linking Directly To Merchant Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-storefront-mgnxLvjZ.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Storefront\" title=\"Google Shopping Results Tests Linking Directly To Merchant Site\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google is testing directly linking to merchant\/retailer web sites, instead of to product listing overlays within the Google Shopping results. Generally, when you click on a product within Google Search, Google will open a new side panel overlay window that has more details about that product.<\/p> <p>Google is testing that instead, it will just take you directly to that merchant&#8217;s website. How agentic (not)&#8230;<\/p> <p>This was spotted by Sachin Patel on X and also later by Brodie Clark on @serpalerts. Here is a video from Sachin showing the click from the product result going to the retailer&#8217;s website:<\/p> <p>Here are more videos of this in action from Sachin:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Google is testing blue hyperlinks for products in Shopping results.<\/p> <p>When I click the product title, it takes me directly to the retailer&#8217;s website instead of opening the product listing within Google Shopping. @rustybrick @brodieseo @gaganghotra_ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KPm0KTndcC\">pic.twitter.com\/KPm0KTndcC<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Sachin Patel (@SachuPatel53124) June 8, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Shopping #Results #Tests #Linking #Merchant #Site1781204907<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing directly linking to merchant\/retailer web sites, instead of to product listing overlays within the Google Shopping results. Generally, when you click on a product within Google Search, Google will open a new side panel overlay window that has more details about that product. Google is testing that instead, it will just take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75,2617,556,308,1638,420,1706],"class_list":["post-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-google","tag-linking","tag-merchant","tag-results","tag-shopping","tag-site","tag-tests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}