Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[mydanilo]

If you sell products, the product feed is for you. If you publish, sell documents, document feed is for you....

You pick what you need. I suspect you don't need to bother about documents since you asked.

[ecmauto]

Hello All,
Trouble getting GBF to work, at 1st I would get a upload failed error, It seems that GBF had created a file called (domain_products.xml) but it was trying to upload a file called (domain_products.xml_products.xml) no that is not a typ-o.
Since the file names did not match the upload failed. So I deleted the file (domain_products.xml) and recreated a product file with GBF witch it named (domain_products.xml_products.xml) and tried the upload again, the upload was successful.
However, I now get an error from Google that the upload failed,no products are live. Looking at the details it would seem that Google can not understand the file.
I am not sure where to go from here !

Can anybody help ?
Jim
https://ecmauto.com

[mydanilo]

For the output file name use only your domains name without the www and no .com


www.thisismydomain.com would be just thisismydomain

The mod will add the _products.xml automatically. The feed needs to be registered with exactly the same complete file name in Google Base.

Hope this helps...

[ecmauto]

For the output file name use only your domains name without the www and no .com


www.thisismydomain.com would be just thisismydomain

The mod will add the _products.xml automatically. The feed needs to be registered with exactly the same complete file name in Google Base.

Hope this helps...

Hi mydanilo,
Thing is that I am not adding the ext. "_products.xml", In fact the mod does not ask me for a file name, it will generate the file name"domain_products.xml".
If I used the upload products feature in "admin-tools-google base feeder" I get an error,in the error it will tell me the path and file name of the file it tried to upload, the file it was looking for was "domain_products.xml_products.xml". I went to my c-panel and changed the name of the file to match and the upload succeeded.
However I now get an error from google that the upload failed stating that they either can not understand the URL or the attribute on nearly every line of the file.
Is it somthing the mod is doing or do I need to reformat my entire site ?
Help
Jim
https://ecmauto.com

[fvb]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Is there a way to have this mod create a [/FONT][FONT=Arial]tab-delimited plain text file instead of a XML file?[/FONT]

[ecmauto]

mydanilo,
Sorry i can be a bit slow at times,I found what you referd to,"admin-config-google base-output filename" the name "domain_products.xml" was a sample name,duh. I gave a name,went to c-panel and deleted the file 1st file it generated,went to admin-tools-google base and created a products feed file,it created one just as I named it and gave the ext. just as you said. I went tot my google base acct. and registerd the file excactly as named,went back to admin-tools-google base and upload product feed. It has stalled at "upload started"
jim
https://ecmauto.com

[ecmauto]

Hi all,
More info on my problem,GBF will create a .xml file but it stalls at "upload started". I can upload it manualy however,but, google reject it reporting errors in every link url in the file.It seems that they are missing the "http://"prefix that google requires. How can I fix this ?
anyone!
Thanks,jim
https://ecmauto.com

[mydanilo]

Google Base Feeder Configuration

Store Address

make sure you use http://www.yourdomainname.com

not just yourdomainname.com

[ecmauto]

Danilo,
Thanks for the reply, since last post I went through the .xml file that GBF generated and added the "https://mydomain.com/"in front of every link and uploaded again manually,Google reported no errors this time, Trouble is that I will have to modify the .xml file every time I generate a new one,monthly,before upload.What a headache.
Bigger problem however is that I never checked my site during all this,when I did I found it was down,reported a 1064 syntax error and made the site unusable. I un-installed GBF and site is now fixed.
Any suggestions on how to correct ?

Jim
https://ecmauto.com

[numinix]

Danilo,
Thanks for the reply, since last post I went through the .xml file that GBF generated and added the "https://mydomain.com/"in front of every link and uploaded again manually,Google reported no errors this time, Trouble is that I will have to modify the .xml file every time I generate a new one,monthly,before upload.What a headache.
Bigger problem however is that I never checked my site during all this,when I did I found it was down,reported a 1064 syntax error and made the site unusable. I un-installed GBF and site is now fixed.
Any suggestions on how to correct ?

Jim
https://ecmauto.com

I believe he was just telling you to put http://www.ecmauto.com for the setting STORE ADDRESS located in ADMIN->CONFIGURATION->GOOGLE BASE FEEDER CONFIGURATION.