Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[DivaVocals]

I know, but I can't figure out how to download the feed from google base feeder. I can view the feed in IE, but that is it.

You download the feed from your website, and then upload it to Google..

[PinkLeopard]

I don't get it.

When I search other peoples Google Products, they all have caps in their product titles..

You can try it and maybe it will go through but Google snagged on using CAPS in my title.

[zorro7444]

You download the feed from your website, and then upload it to Google..

I can access the file via FTP, but the .xml is in the format RSS 1.0 or 2.0:

<title>
<product>
<etc>

Can you download or convert it to an excell version?

[zorro7444]

I'll answer my own question, you can easily open the .xml doc in excell for editing.

New Question:
I uploaded a feed and it has 27 product, but only 10 are shown as searchable or searchable soon. since I just did this 30mins ago, does Google just need time to process the feed? I don't have any errors, so I thought all 27 products should be searchable soon?

[countrycharm]

I don't get it.

When I search other peoples Google Products, they all have caps in their product titles..

Caps are fine At The Beginning Of Each Word. Google takes all my feeds like that. THEY DO NOT LIKE IT THIS WAY. Hope that helps

[zorro7444]

I uploaded my first feed last night, then this morning when I woke up I noticed one of my competitors had beat all my prices. Has anyone had experience with this? Is there a program to monitor the prices of your products, I find it hard to believe that these guys could beat all of my prices while I was sleeping....

[zorro7444]

Does the feeder have an option for preventing items from being searchable through the API? Also does anyone use a competitor analysis tool?

[zorro7444]

If you make cPath for product url = true will it use the URL of your product as the category path? Is that where google wants you to say your tennis racket is: Sports > outdoor sports > tennis > tennis rackets.

So will that only work if your urls are SEO? Or if your Urls are alreadu SEO would this be redundant?

[sailsport1]

I've been having problems getting all of my products listed. I can generate a feed with 358 products, but Google only lists 208. I do get an XML formatting error - it doesn't say how many and I can't seem to find it. It shows one line - 4274 but I don't see a problem on that line.
I did correct the feed generator for quotation marks and ampersands. Would that cause the problem?
Any ideas?
Thanks

[raydude]

I have the google base add on and installed and when I try to run it i get the following. I'm not to sure of what my settings should be.

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2010/02/07 21:11:11
Feed file - /home/www/zc138/feed/domain_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Login failed:
Connected to: uploads.google.com
Upload failed...

any suggestions?