During an import run via the Marketplacer middleware, the import error "Description may not contain web links" has been received.
Product descriptions often include URLs linking to the seller's website. To maintain on-platform traffic and conversion rates, external links are not permitted on the product listing page.
To resolve this:
- Log in to the seller portal.
- Go to Extensions > MConnect.
- Select Go to MConnect.
- In the MConnect page, go to Settings.
- Check the Remove links from description box.
- Conduct a full import.
This will replace all links in the description with text before sending the data to your marketplace.
Note: MConnect only removes the anchor tag from ad descriptions, leaving the text intact. In cases where the URL serves as both the anchor href and the text (e.g., https://google.com/), an edge case occurs. Although the anchor tag is removed, the text URL is imported. However, Marketplacer deems it invalid due to the detection of a URL post-import.
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