Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[delia]

admin settings: 0 quantity? If you have zero quantities and you haven't enabled that, those products don't export. There are also many other reasons why it might be happening and it would take a fair amount of time to figure out why.

[matchlock]

admin settings: 0 quantity? If you have zero quantities and you haven't enabled that, those products don't export. There are also many other reasons why it might be happening and it would take a fair amount of time to figure out why.

it's actually not export products that are in stock..

[Fez-o Joe]

it's actually not export products that are in stock..

Have you set the file to 'debug' and rerun the 'generate' without doing an upload. Then view the file and it should let you know what the error is on each product.

Description < 15 characters, etc.

The other thing to look at in the configuration drop-down are the Included and Excluded categories - do you have the right numbers?

At least that is what worked for me.

[delia]

I finally did a bit of write up for some reoccurring questions. I will be adding to this when I find out more or can explain further. Feel free to post this link in answer to questions in this thread!

http://zencartdelia.com/google_merchant_feeder_.htm

[mgwirelessllc]

Dear All:

I need some help for google feed after hours of fruitless searching for an answer:

First, all my products with price at "$0" can not feed into google even though the description is more than 15 characters and the title is more than 3 characters, is there any way to get around this?

Second, the products which got feed are not showing the base price, they are showing base price plus the prices by ALL the attributes, which makes the products look extremely expensive. Why is that, the attribute price is supposed to be added only when customer selects that attribute. How come the feed can pick up the attribute price and add to the base price, very confused...

Thanks in advance.

Michelle

[mgwirelessllc]

updates:

I fixed the attribute issue by changing the "price based on attributes" from "yes" to "no", now google is showing the correct price. But the $0 products are still not showing in google feed.

michelle

[Interceptor]

Found a small bug.

Some of you may not be bothered by this, but i'm a little fussy about which images I want google to show in the shopping results.

If you have a product with additional images, then google will show the last image for that product in the shopping results page.
, instead of your main image.

I could not find a way of re-ordering the way images are displayed in the xml file, so instead I removed a small bit of code that adds the additional image urls.

[delia]

updates:

I fixed the attribute issue by changing the "price based on attributes" from "yes" to "no", now google is showing the correct price. But the $0 products are still not showing in google feed.

michelle

You can't have a $0 price. It has to have something above 0.

[jeking]

I've upgraded from a previous version but left with one error. The feed file has no link:
<link></link>

I tried searching the thread but did not find any answer.

Suggestions?

[jeking]

I've upgraded from a previous version but left with one error. The feed file has no link:
<link></link>

I tried searching the thread but did not find any answer.

Suggestions?

FIXED:
I change 'Use cPath in url' from false to true.