Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[delia]

Okay, my first disapproval -
the cart has linked products which means duplicate products to Google. I hadn't seen this before but had just changed to show all products regardless of stock quantity.

I had wondered about this before with another customer and I'm not seeing how to exclude those addtional linked products.

I had also changed the product type in admin to top where I had been using full - path.

Don't know what to do here - anybody with experience with this scenario?

[toyseller]

From today my googlebase feed is being rejected as it is missing the attribute "availability" on all products.

As the latest version of google base feeder says it now incorporates this field I have ungraded to the latest version, however I seem to have upgraded sucessfully but this field isnt appearing in my feed file.

Does anyone have an idea which of the files I havent copied up correctly as I dont know which files deal with what to put in the feed file.

[toyseller]

I read back through posts to solve this ...

set admins Show Quantity to true

(So relieved ... as for some reason I dont sell anything if Im not on googlebase) and Im in a panic to go out !!

[delia]

You can avoid that by turning on the all products option - no matter the stock.

What I just found out is that fixed my problem with the duplicate products which means they'll be yelling about availability soon I expect.

If the is the case then, this mod does not work for sites with linked duplicate products that have the same model number.

[RescoCCC]

If the is the case then, this mod does not work for sites with linked duplicate products that have the same model number.

Okay, that explains why I'm not having an issue with linked products. I don't have model numbers.

[delia]

Okay, that explains why I'm not having an issue with linked products. I don't have model numbers.

You are going to get blasted for that, I'll bet unless you are using some other field for the unique model, sku, part number etc.

[RescoCCC]

You are going to get blasted for that, I'll bet unless you are using some other field for the unique model, sku, part number etc.

For this particular site I asked for and was granted an exemption from Google for the unique product identifiers requirement. It's vintage and antique collectibles that don't come with model numbers, part numbers, UPC's, etc.

[delia]

For this particular site I asked for and was granted an exemption from Google for the unique product identifiers requirement. It's vintage and antique collectibles that don't come with model numbers, part numbers, UPC's, etc.

Ah, so it doesn't apply to you. That explains that.

[inovermyhead]

If the is the case then, this mod does not work for sites with linked duplicate products that have the same model number.

Not sure what you mean here, Delia ... you mean different items that have the same model number? Or the same product that has different listing in different categories?

[delia]

When you copy a product to another category and make it a linked product instead of duplicated, it shows up in both places and it is identical so it seems to be appearing as 2 products with the same info to Google.