Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[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!

[nehoward64]

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!

Actually, that's not bad. There are various reasons that a product will not be included in the feed upload. I have about 550 products on my site and only 501 will upload because one of my catagories has all very large items that are labeled as 'call for price' due to shipping concerns. This causes the price to flag as zero(0.00) in the feed and disqualifies the product. If you have any instances of that, there ya go! There are several other reasons, check backwards a few messages, I recently posted a couple links to Googles specifications, maybe those will help.

[jackie.taferner]

nehoward, thank you for your continuing support.

Google does not reject the feed as provided by froogle feeder; the products are accepted fine when uploaded.

The issue is getting the products into the xml file in the first place, and only 3 out of 1000 are being generated into the feed file.

All of the products have attributes, but none of the products are $0. They all start with a base price, and the attributes are optional which add additional cost on a case by case basis. If it would help, I can pm you a link to the site

[ZeeRocK]

Actually, that's not bad. There are various reasons that a product will not be included in the feed upload. I have about 550 products on my site and only 501 will upload because one of my catagories has all very large items that are labeled as 'call for price' due to shipping concerns. This causes the price to flag as zero(0.00) in the feed and disqualifies the product. If you have any instances of that, there ya go! There are several other reasons, check backwards a few messages, I recently posted a couple links to Googles specifications, maybe those will help.

Thank you for your reply. You may be right, but don't you find it strange that always 159 items uploaded. I have uploaded atleast 70/80 times and always this number. I have also checked the max products upload in my admin which is unlimited. I know I'm probably one of the lucky ones as my upload ratios is higher than alot of people.

The funny thing is except for missing GTIN they don't give any other error but they still approve my file and everything shows up. I think I should be thankful that it still uploads most of my products.

[nehoward64]

nehoward, thank you for your continuing support.

Google does not reject the feed as provided by froogle feeder; the products are accepted fine when uploaded.

The issue is getting the products into the xml file in the first place, and only 3 out of 1000 are being generated into the feed file.

All of the products have attributes, but none of the products are $0. They all start with a base price, and the attributes are optional which add additional cost on a case by case basis. If it would help, I can pm you a link to the site

Well I'm certainly not an expert but if you want to send me a screen shot of your base feeder setup(blocking your google login id and pw) I could compare it to mine and see if there are any outstanding differences. Or, if you could tell me how to pull a screen shot of mine(never done it before) I could send mine to you for comparison. That's probably a good place to start, I cant help but think it's a setup issue somewhere.

[nehoward64]

Thank you for your reply. You may be right, but don't you find it strange that always 159 items uploaded. I have uploaded atleast 70/80 times and always this number. I have also checked the max products upload in my admin which is unlimited. I know I'm probably one of the lucky ones as my upload ratios is higher than alot of people.

The funny thing is except for missing GTIN they don't give any other error but they still approve my file and everything shows up. I think I should be thankful that it still uploads most of my products.

Yeah, I just checked mine and it's 501 of 549. I have several big items(700 lb wheeled fire extinguishers with special shipping requirements) that I have customers call me for price quotes on that dont get included in the feed.

One of these days, when I have nothing better to do but be curious(yeah, right) I'll dig into the code and see what makes it tick. Unfortunatly, php is not my language forte, I'm more familiar with OS9 and UNIX source but the structure is basically the same. Maybe someday.....