Can Google shopping listings affect SEO rankings?

[fablau]

Hello everyone.

Here is my question: Until 4 weeks ago we used to have just around 2,000 product/pages on Google shopping of our product pages, then we added over 40,000 more items/pages to it, and our Google natural search rankings dropped on most of our long-tail keywords pointing to the same product pages.

Do you think that's just coincidence or could the number of products/pages on Google shopping affect natural search results?

[Alick300]

Hi Fabrizo

That is just coincidence. Google paid advertising/shopping doesn't affect organic listing.

Thanks

[fablau]

That's what I thought, I wanted just to have confirmation about that.

Thanks!