Promotional overlay on image (text on image)

The product image contains promotional text, a retailer logo, a call to action, or a watermark that obstructs the view of the product. Google disapproves these items — but also offers automatic image improvements that can remove simple overlays for you.

Common causes

• ·Sale badges or discount text baked into the product image
• ·Retailer logos or watermarks added by the shop's image pipeline
• ·Marketing banners exported as the main product image

How to fix it

1. 01Quickest path: enable automatic image improvements in Merchant Center (Products → Automations) — Google tries to remove the overlay, and if successful the image is replaced and the product re-approved
2. 02Otherwise upload a clean image without text or logos, and update the image_link attribute
3. 03For many products, download the affected list from 'Needs attention', fix the image URLs in your source data, and re-upload
4. 04Allow 24–72 hours for changes to reflect

Checked against Google's documentation: Google Help 1 · Google Help 2