Shoppers who only see one product photo often hesitate before buying, since a single angle rarely shows fit, scale, or detail. Google Shopping lets you fix that with the additional_image_link attribute, which sends up to 10 extra photos from your product gallery straight to Google Merchant Center alongside your main image.
This article covers how to map those extra gallery images in Product Feed Pro.
Prerequisites
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Plugin | Product Feed Pro (free or premium); Elite is not required |
| Feed channel | A Google Shopping feed with at least one WooCommerce product that has gallery images |
| Product setup | Products need gallery images uploaded in WooCommerce beyond the featured image, since additional_image_link maps to gallery images, not the main product image |
Map additional images
Step 1: Open field mapping
Open your Google Shopping feed in Product Feed Pro, then go to the Field Mapping tab.
Step 2: Add the additional image attribute
Click + Add field mapping, then choose Additional image URL (additional_image_link) from the channel attributes dropdown.
Step 3: Map it to a gallery image
In the Value column, select Additional image 1. Add a separate row for each extra image you want to send, choosing Additional image 2, Additional image 3, and so on up to Additional image 10.
Step 4: Save and refresh the feed
Click Save, then refresh the feed to regenerate the XML or CSV file Google Merchant Center reads.
Troubleshooting
additional_image_link rows mapped, and a Suffix value was set on those rows. Instead of leaving the extra slots out of the feed, the plugin wrote a node containing only the suffix text.This is fixed in Product Feed Pro 13.5.6. Update the plugin to the latest version, then refresh the feed. Slots without a matching gallery image are now left out of the feed entirely, whether or not a suffix or prefix is set.
Need more help?
If you’re on the free version of Product Feed Pro, open a support forum thread, and our team will get back to you there.
If you’re a Premium or Elite user, open a support ticket from your account, and we’ll help you directly.
