Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[jackie.taferner]

Ok, I've installed the latest mod (in fact, i completely uninstalled the old one and installed the newest just to be sure).

It's still only pulling 3 products from the store (out of 1073). Are there specific store settings, or product descriptions, or something else that would cause this?

[nehoward64]

Ok, I've installed the latest mod (in fact, i completely uninstalled the old one and installed the newest just to be sure).

It's still only pulling 3 products from the store (out of 1073). Are there specific store settings, or product descriptions, or something else that would cause this?

well.... it's all pretty grey to me, but, I do know that product descriptions have to be a certain length and prices have to be valid(and a positive number), for example "call for price" shows up as a price of zero(0.00) and is ignored by the googlefroogle application. I have several large items that fall victim to that on my site. Also, check your setup and make sure you're not offsetting the start of your item list(skipping the first 'X' items)... That's all I can really think of. Wish I could offer more advice.

[jackie.taferner]

nehoward, that is very helpful, thank you.

Do you have a list somewhere that gives the specific requirements (ie, description must be at least 50 characters long, etc)?

[nehoward64]

nehoward, that is very helpful, thank you.

Do you have a list somewhere that gives the specific requirements (ie, description must be at least 50 characters long, etc)?

I did some digging around on Google and found this link:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/...ca7e8e2f&hl=en

which has a few tips and tricks, I dont see a specific minimum length although I kinda, in the back of my mind, remember seeing something, somewhere saying a minimum of 15 chars.

This link:

http://www.google.com/support/mercha...&answer=160085

appears to have the specs to all of the attributes.

Hopefully that helps a little bit anyhow.

[jackie.taferner]

Oh, i see. I was thinking there was a requirement for the feeder.

Funny thing is, I was able to export these same products into a feed using Easy Populate, and upload that to Google with no problems. (yes, this works for me temporarily, but I have no way to make that feed auto-create or auto-upload, so i am badly in need of the official froogle feeder to work)

So since Google accepted my products - pricing, descriptions, title and all - the restrictions are not with Google, it must be with the feeder. Do you have a list of disallowed characters that would cause the feeder to break?

[nehoward64]

hhhmmm... is google completely rejecting the feed from googlefroogle.php? If so, try this. I saw this in a message several pages back from a young lady that got hers working by doing this.

in the root/googlefroogle.php file on line 111 change the encoding to UTF=16 like this:

$content["xml"] = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>';

I had to do that to get mine working. Hopefully that works for you.....

[ZeeRocK]

Hello all,

I've been using this awesome mod for the last 5/6 months and never had any problem not even on the initial installation. I have set up a cron job and that works fine too. My only concern is I always upload 159 products no more and my store has atleast 179 at the moment. First I didn't notice this but just last night I found this out.

I have also followed numinix instructions on how to get around your server time out, but I never had any problems being timed out but I still added a few line in php.ini.

So any recommendations as what I should do do get my all products get uploaded ?

Cheers!

[vanian777]

[FONT="Times New Roman"]The following tips:
Google Merchant Center Feeder v1.9.1 started 2011/06/18 05:40:44
Feed file - /home1/ambercra/public_html/oilpainting777/feed/googleabstract_oil_paintings_products_1000_1.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No

Google Merchant Center File Complete In 0.877804 Seconds 18 of 18 Records

i have 2000+ productions ,but not the addon just export 18[/FONT].

[mydanilo]

[FONT="Times New Roman"]The following tips:
Google Merchant Center Feeder v1.9.1 started 2011/06/18 05:40:44
Feed file - /home1/ambercra/public_html/oilpainting777/feed/googleabstract_oil_paintings_products_1000_1.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No

Google Merchant Center File Complete In 0.877804 Seconds 18 of 18 Records

i have 2000+ productions ,but not the addon just export 18[/FONT].

Turn on debug and look at the messages... Any indication what happens to the other products? I assume they are all PRODUCTS?