Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[jdalton]

The bottom link does like I said nothing in it except
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.ethoil.com/store/feed/goo...l_products.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:
This is what mine does also. Nothing to worry about on that one.
The other one is the one you need to upload.

Is that all you have 9 products in your feed?

I used the upload feature in admin>tools to upload the new file...

Try going straight to Google base merchant center and uploading your file

so I need to upload the ethoil_.xml file.... yep there are the nine products

[countrycharm]

so I need to upload the ethoil_.xml file.... yep there are the nine products

Yes thats right. Try this create a new feed in the google merchant center named ethoil.xml

Google base when it creates your feed puts and _ at the end of ethoil file. What I do is go to my sever when it creates it and take off the _ at the end of the name. Goole always excepts my files. Hope this make sense.

[jdalton]

Yes thats right. Try this create a new feed in the google merchant center named ethoil.xml

Google base when it creates your feed puts and _ at the end of ethoil file. What I do is go to my sever when it creates it and take off the _ at the end of the name. Goole always excepts my files. Hope this make sense.

I have created the new file on google ethoil_.xml & have uploaded it... Google looks to have accepted it so just need to wait now for a day or so for my new products to show!! hopefully!!

[countrycharm]

I have created the new file on google ethoil_.xml & have uploaded it... Google looks to have accepted it so just need to wait now for a day or so for my new products to show!! hopefully!!

I think they will. Just setup a schedule for them to craw your feed every week, month etc.

[jdalton]

unfortunately my products are still not showing up on a search? Any other ideas??

[jdalton]

I think they will. Just setup a schedule for them to craw your feed every week, month etc.

Unfortunately my products are still not showing up on a search. Any other ideas??

[countrycharm]

Unfortunately my products are still not showing up on a search. Any other ideas??

Is Google accepting them in Google Merchant Center? If they are they are being listed somewhere.

[jdalton]

I think they will. Just setup a schedule for them to craw your feed every week, month etc.

Is Google accepting them in Google Merchant Center? If they are they are being listed somewhere.

They are being listed in my google merchant account with no errors reported. It never showed any issues in my merchant account!

[Tapper]

Hi All

I've been using this mod for over a year. Since last Thursday when I upload the xml file Google says 0 products inserted. I haven't changed anything on my site lately. I generally have around 14,000 - 15,000 products live and I upload every couple weeks. It's not a TOS violation causing this (Google lets you know if that's the issue). It's some error in the XML file creation all of a sudden. I've uplaoded via FTP and through the manual upload in the Base admin but no luck. I've generated 4 files and all have failed.

I'm running Zen 1.3.9d and EasyPopulate CSV. The XML file ends with </item> at line 263,990.
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XML formatting error - Error

Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed.

Line Nr. Column Nr.
263,990 8

[Tapper]

Maybe this announcement from Google has somethi g to do with it?

Hello,

Starting in late August 2010, we are making some changes to how your products in the Electronics, Books, and Media categories may appear on Google Product Search. In order to provide as much information as possible to our users, we need your help in matching your products to our "product pages" where users are able to view useful data such as product specifications or reviews. If you are submitting products in the above categories for the US version of Google Product Search, please start including unique product identifiers, such as MPN, Brand, UPC or ISBN. We will make similar changes to Product Search in the UK and Germany at a later date.

These attributes will not be required for your feed to process correctly, however, to avoid seeing a drop in traffic from Product Search, we urge you to start including these unique identifiers as soon as possible. You can find unique product identifier information on Product Search product pages, under the "technical specifications" section for Electronics items, the "Tracks" or "Details" section for Media, and the "Overview" section for books.

For more details, including what specific identifiers you should include for each category of item, please see our Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/mercha...?answer=160161

Sincerely,

The Google Product Search Team