Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[chabbu]

Hi

Some apostrophe's and quotation marks are being replaced in the XML file by 'Â'. Consequently, these products do not make it into google base.

Is there a way of correcting this?

Thanks in advance.

[zoom1]

Hi
Thanks for the mod
I cant get this to work with Magic SEO URLS on.
I have paid for and installed the Magic SEO URL mod, but when i set it to True in Zen cart Google Base Feeder settings, when I go to build the feed i just get the blank white page.

When i turn it off it works.

So... the company who make Magic SEO URL are VERY unhelpful, they just tell you to ask whoever made the Google Base Feeder.

So I am stuck! I saw someone else on this forum had this problem and managed to fix it.. but they didnt say how!

Can someone let me know the answer?

Should i just turn off the magic seo url setting in feeder, make the feed and then upload it then turn the magic seo url setting back on again? Will it work?

Please help! I just spend 70 euros on this mod becuase in the google base instructions it says works with Magic Seo URL but I just get the blank screen!

[lankeeyankee]

Hi
Thanks for the mod
I cant get this to work with Magic SEO URLS on.
I have paid for and installed the Magic SEO URL mod, but when i set it to True in Zen cart Google Base Feeder settings, when I go to build the feed i just get the blank white page.

When i turn it off it works.

So... the company who make Magic SEO URL are VERY unhelpful, they just tell you to ask whoever made the Google Base Feeder.

So I am stuck! I saw someone else on this forum had this problem and managed to fix it.. but they didnt say how!

Can someone let me know the answer?

Should i just turn off the magic seo url setting in feeder, make the feed and then upload it then turn the magic seo url setting back on again? Will it work?

Please help! I just spend 70 euros on this mod becuase in the google base instructions it says works with Magic Seo URL but I just get the blank screen!

I think you have to buy the magic seo url addon for the feeds from the numinix site, the author of this google feed. or you could get your money back from magic seo url and use the free and excellently supported simple seo url that is available here.

[TrvlFox]

Hi there,

I don't have a solution for your problem, but what you suggested about doing a manual upload sounds like a great idea to me. I couldn't get the auto upload to work so I just upload mine on a monthly basis. There is no guarantee that it would work for you. Also, time is money, get it up now rather than later.

Hope this helps
Vicky

[zoom1]

I think you have to buy the magic seo url addon for the feeds from the numinix site, the author of this google feed. or you could get your money back from magic seo url and use the free and excellently supported simple seo url that is available here.

Thanks... well ive tried to get google base feed to work with simple seo url and i just get the blank page.

Ive tried it with magic seo url setting ON and OFF and still get the blank page when trying to make the feed.

Ive tried with this Magic SEO url too as mentioned previously, and that doesnt work.

I am interested to know if ANYONE here has got Google Base feeder to work with ANY seo url script!

Thanks

[jeking]

Thanks... well ive tried to get google base feed to work with simple seo url and i just get the blank page.

Ive tried it with magic seo url setting ON and OFF and still get the blank page when trying to make the feed.

Ive tried with this Magic SEO url too as mentioned previously, and that doesnt work.

I am interested to know if ANYONE here has got Google Base feeder to work with ANY seo url script!

Thanks

I have two sites using the Google Base feeder. One using Magic SEO and one using Ultimate SEO (it's old an unsupported but this was before Simple SEO was available). That may not help your problem, but is a reference point.

[lankeeyankee]

Thanks... well ive tried to get google base feed to work with simple seo url and i just get the blank page.

Ive tried it with magic seo url setting ON and OFF and still get the blank page when trying to make the feed.

Ive tried with this Magic SEO url too as mentioned previously, and that doesnt work.

I am interested to know if ANYONE here has got Google Base feeder to work with ANY seo url script!

Thanks

I'd recommend posting the question in the simple seo url thread, well first do a search in that thread to see if someone has already asked about google base feeder, there probably already are questions and answers about it there, but if not then I know that the author is extremely helpful and will help you get it sorted.

[pricediscrimination]

Some of the products to not click through to my site once uploaded to Google Shopping. Sometimes it just takes you to a Google page that displays all the info - instead of linking directly to the product.

Any particular reason this would be happening?

[James Link]

Numinix,

I haven't gone through all of the rest of the posts yet, but there were several people throughout the thread who were saying that when they would try to upload their feed through the GBF add-on, it would say "Upload started..." and then say "Done" in the browser's status bar after a little bit. I was experiencing this as well. I wasn't the one who set up ZC or GBF, but I was brought in to fix the issue. The customer thought that it was because he had over 1,000 products in his inventory.

After spending hours reading this thread from post #1, and mucking around with the code (googefroogle.php and then google_base.php), I found that it was the "Google Base PASV" setting being set to true. When I changed it to false, regenerated the feed file and trying the upload again, it worked.

So I guess those who've checked with their ISP and can do PHP FTP functions and have tried the php.ini trick to no avail, they can try changing that value and see what happens.

I figured it out after commenting out the ob_start() function and then commenting out the ftp_pasv() function in google_base.php.

Woo-Hoo!!!
I've been tweaking for 3 days to no avail.
Your PASV to False WORKED !!!!
Thanks for posting the information !!

[chabbu]

Hi

Is there a way of getting this mod NOT to strip out double (") and single (') quotation marks?