Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[Chaos Factor]

More words...these are a given since they only allow these in the adult store option:
Kama Sutra....massage oils
Tantric....massage oils

Too bad they don't allow you to upload different categories to different options. Some could be adult based others family.

[numinix]

Hi everyone,

This new feature of Google banning feeds due to keywords and not providing a list of keywords is a problem.

So, how should we remedy this? Would you like a configuration field created where you can specify the keywords? Should the module then remove the keyword when it create the feed or skip the product? It seems if the keywords are banned, they probably do not want the products either...

Keep in mind any such feature will add additional server load and may cause larger stores to time out. Before we implement anything, please let us know the size of your store and what the best solution would be for you.

[davewest]

Hi everyone,

This new feature of Google banning feeds due to keywords and not providing a list of keywords is a problem.

So, how should we remedy this? Would you like a configuration field created where you can specify the keywords? Should the module then remove the keyword when it create the feed or skip the product? It seems if the keywords are banned, they probably do not want the products either...

Keep in mind any such feature will add additional server load and may cause larger stores to time out. Before we implement anything, please let us know the size of your store and what the best solution would be for you.

You can find lists of bad adsence words and looking at the list, more then likely is what's being blocked. Perhaps a pre scan using a text file list returning a product ID. Let the user check the product before doing the feed creation.

I've only had one product get rejected out of 5000 so far.
One of the bad word lists....
urbanoalvarez(dot)es/blog/2008/04/04/bad-words-list/

I can see why google is doing this, lots of complaints with adsence ads.

[dinki]

I did a little research and it is related to 'family safe' option. Unfortunately, I'd really like to keep my items in the 'safe search' part of google products as if I change to 'safe search', then I will only have my products show up if the user has changed their settings to allow for the 'safe search off' mode. I guess google just decided to check to make sure my products were in compliance.

It'd be really cool if this plugin would allow for setting the feed for either 'safe search' or not and then filtered any offensive words based on a list of words. I'd be happy just to know where I can look to try and add this check myself. I know enough php to hack it in but don't have a whole lot of time right now to dissect the code. Any help is appreciated. I'll share my hack if anyone else is interested.

[dgent]

Is there anyway we can exclude product descriptions from the feed, and just keep the product title and image?

[US Purchase]

I have been with Google products from day one. I have had over a dozen feeds that were problem free for many years. Suddenly and without any notice they disapproved all product feeds. It took two weeks to get a response to my enquiry. They told me they had determined that I was a drop shipper and did not own my inventory. Where did they get that from? Amazon maybe. I sent them a video of my warehouse and some documents. After a few more weeks they sent me an email saying they had determined that I was not a drop shipper. I put the feeds up again. After a few days all but one were disapproved again. After a few weeks I got an email stating that I had duplicate products on multiple websites. Which was true but it was less than a dozen products spread across a few websites. Why disapprove them all? I fixed that and was able to get a few feeds approved. Today Google disapproved all the feeds except one stating I had invalid media and book identifiers. I have had to lay off 36 employees because of Google's shenanigans. It seems that when a feed is disapproved you loose page ranking. I was number one now I am on the third page. Amazon has taken over my original position. Is this some sort of collusion between Google and Amazon? Just in time to knock out the competition before the Christmas season begins. What ever happened to the notion of communication? Why can't Google send an email stating the problem and giving a few weeks to comply? Is there an alternative to Google products? Are other people having the same problem? Is there a better way to communicate with Google other than the email form provided online?

[Lian]

Hi, I have seen the question asked several times before on this thread, but cant seem to find an answer.

I am using zencart Zen Cart v1.3.8a/v1.3.8

Im not sure how to find which version of googlebase feeder is installed.

I have the option to sellect "New" in the configuration, and have done so, but google rejects the feed saying there is no condition attribute.

Any help much appriciated.

[fusionsp]

Is there anyway we can exclude product descriptions from the feed, and just keep the product title and image?

Well while im sure there is a way to do this...that would throw you into a secondary issue of not having product desc and they would prob disallow those as well.

but on a different note, I have been looking around and havent seen anyone mention it yet to be worked on but is there any idea on if this is going to include their new mandatory desc for books/media?

[buildingblocks]

Has anyone had success with the googlebase isbn/upc feature?

I activated the upc/isbn feature. The isbn number uploads in the feed but in my google merchant account, in the feed errors, google recognizes it as an invalid upc number.

My feed shows the isbn number in the correct field

<g:isbn>0517093103</g:isbn>

This was a few months ago and I had asked about it on the google boards and never got a resolution.

I'd love to hear about the experience others have had with it.