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An Italian store that started selling in German

A heating and cooling retailer sold almost everything at home. We rebuilt the catalogue one market at a time. Revenue from outside Italy went from 4% to 52%.

Sector
Heating and cooling
Channel
Google Shopping, Google Ads, Meta
Period
May to August 2026 vs the same months of 2025

4% → 52%

Share of revenue outside Italy

-29.4%

Google cost per click

+37.0%

Google Shopping impressions

The situation

Air conditioning is not an impulse purchase. People compare specifications, ask whether the installation is included, and want to know what happens if it breaks in August. That conversation happens in the buyer's own language, with the buyer's own standards and plug types in mind.

A translated catalogue does not have that conversation. It repeats an Italian page in German words. It is also, from Google's point of view, a weaker page in a market where local competitors wrote theirs natively.

What we changed

  • Native German and French. Written for each market rather than translated, with the specifications and the terms buyers in that country actually search for.
  • One Merchant Center feed per country. Instead of one feed for everywhere. Prices, availability and shipping rules differ by market, and a single feed forces a compromise that fits none of them.
  • Technical content and trust signals. On the products people buy after thinking about them: what is included, who installs it, what the warranty covers.

Month by month

Google Shopping clicks by month, from March 2025 to August 2026, indexed so that the comparison period is 100. The green bars are the four months this page reports.

55110165220Mar2025AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugGoogle Shopping clicks, indexed
comparison periodperiod reportedindex 100 = average of the comparison period

The pattern here is seasonal, as it should be for air conditioning: summer is the business. What changed is the level the season reaches, and where the buyers come from.

The full picture

MetricChange
Share of revenue outside Italy4% to 52%
Google Shopping impressions+37.0%
Google Shopping clicks+23.5%
Google cost per click-29.4%
Google click-through rate+20.2%
Meta cost per click-50.7%

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