Google product taxonomy · 2021-09-21
Piercing & Tattooing
The Google product category ID for Piercing & Tattooing is 4285. It sits under Business & Industrial and has 2 subcategories of its own, so it is a predefined value you can send as it stands — but one of those 2 is usually the closer answer, and an interior category fits when a product genuinely spans the ones below.
This branch3
- Category ID
- 4285
- Direct subcategories
- 2
- Categories below it in total
- 7
- Depth, on a branch that runs 4
- 2 / 4
- Others at this level
- 24
- Parent category
- Business & Industrial
- Taxonomy version
- 2021-09-21
- Sent in your feed as
- google_product_category
Where this sits in the taxonomy
Measured by how much sits beneath them, Piercing & Tattooing is 10th largest of the 25 categories under Business & Industrial, with 7 categories below it. Size is not correctness — a small category is the right answer when it is the right answer — but it does tell you how much of the taxonomy you are still choosing between once you pick this branch.
Piercing & TattooingPiercing SuppliesPiercing Needles
The longest route down from here runs 2 more levels, ending at Piercing Needles (4122) on level 4: Piercing & Tattooing › Piercing Supplies › Piercing Needles. Most branches stop sooner than that — the figure to compare it against is the seven levels Google's taxonomy allows, not the depth of the branch next door.
| Category | ID | Direct | Below | Levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 112 | 1 | 10 | 3 |
| Construction | 114 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Food Service | 135 | 17 | 22 | 2 |
| Retail | 138 | 8 | 20 | 3 |
| Signage | 976 | 13 | 15 | 2 |
| Manufacturing | 1470 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hotel & Hospitality | 1475 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Law Enforcement | 1556 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Science & Laboratory | 1624 | 6 | 33 | 3 |
| Heavy Machinery | 1795 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Finance & Insurance | 1813 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Forestry & Logging | 1827 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Work Safety Protective Gear | 2047 | 12 | 16 | 2 |
| Film & Television | 2155 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mining & Quarrying | 2187 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Medical | 2496 | 11 | 41 | 3 |
| Piercing & Tattooing — this page | 4285 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Industrial Storage | 5830 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Advertising & Marketing | 5863 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Material Handling | 6987 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| Hairdressing & Cosmetology | 7240 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Automation Control Components | 7261 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Dentistry | 7497 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| Industrial Storage Accessories | 8025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Janitorial Carts & Caddies | 500086 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Using this value
Either form of this value goes in the google_product_category attribute: the numeric ID (4285) or the full path ("Business & Industrial > Piercing & Tattooing"). Both are predefined values for the same category. The ID is the sturdier of the two, because renaming any segment above this one changes the path text and leaves the number alone. Before sending it, check whether one of the 2 subcategories below fits — a narrower category groups the product with fewer, closer things.
Bear in mind that google_product_category is an optional attribute. Google assigns a category automatically, and your value is treated as a signal rather than an override. When an override actually applies.
In your feed, it looks like this
Either row below is accepted. The first is the one to send.
| id | title | google_product_category |
|---|---|---|
| SKU-1001 | Your product title | 4285 |
| SKU-1001 | Your product title | Business & Industrial > Piercing & Tattooing |
This path has no comma, so an unquoted cell holds it as it stands — which is not true of every category in the taxonomy. The numeric ID, 4285, is the form that does not depend on how the file is quoted.
What sits under Piercing & Tattooing
2 subcategories. A narrower category groups the product with fewer, closer things, so prefer one of these when it fits.
They are not the same size. Tattooing Supplies (4326) is the largest with 4 categories beneath it, so most of what sits under Piercing & Tattooing sits under that one name. Every one of the 2 carries subcategories of its own.
Questions about Piercing & Tattooing
What is the Google product category ID for Piercing & Tattooing?
4285. The full path, "Business & Industrial > Piercing & Tattooing", is the same category written the other way. The ID is shorter, and renaming a segment above this one changes the path text while leaving the number alone.
Should I use Piercing & Tattooing or one of its subcategories?
Prefer a subcategory when one fits: Piercing & Tattooing has 2 directly below it, starting with Piercing Supplies (4350), Tattooing Supplies (4326), and 7 in total further down. 4285 is itself a predefined value, so an interior category is not an error — it just groups the product more broadly than a subcategory would.
Where does Piercing & Tattooing sit in the taxonomy?
At level 2, under Business & Industrial (111). The chain from the top is Business & Industrial → Piercing & Tattooing. If your product does not belong under Business & Industrial, it does not belong here either — check the level above before going deeper.
What should I use if Piercing & Tattooing is not quite right?
Look across the rest of Business & Industrial first — there are 24 other categories at this level: Advertising & Marketing (5863), Agriculture (112), Automation Control Components (7261), Construction (114), Dentistry (7497), Film & Television (2155), and 18 more. If none of them fits either, the problem is higher up: go back to Business & Industrial (111) and pick a different branch from there rather than settling for the closest thing on this one.
How much more specific can I get than Piercing & Tattooing?
2 levels more. The longest route down from Piercing & Tattooing is Piercing & Tattooing > Piercing Supplies > Piercing Needles, ending at Piercing Needles (4122) on level 4. Not every branch below Piercing & Tattooing runs that far, so the category that fits your product may stop earlier than this one does.
How big is Piercing & Tattooing compared with the categories next to it?
It is 10th largest of the 25 at its level, carrying 7 categories below it. Inside it, Tattooing Supplies (4326) is the biggest branch with 4 beneath it. A bigger category is not a better one — it just means more of the taxonomy is still open below you after you pick it.
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