Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[jdalton]

Click on products in the Google merchant account. Click one of your products and see what it looks like. Copy the name of the product, open a new browser to Google.com, go to the top of the page click shopping, enter your product name and search for the name of your product and store name. You should see it there.

yep did that that but no luck!!! Also tried filtering by company name ethoil... but still no luck

product name
Pure Peppermint oil 10ml/0.3oz
Pure Basil Oil 20ml/0.7oz

[countrycharm]

yep did that that but no luck!!! Also tried filtering by company name ethoil... but still no luck

product name
Pure Peppermint oil 10ml/0.3oz
Pure Basil Oil 20ml/0.7oz

So it is not showing any errors and Google says they are active and viewable. If this is the case they should be there. I check and I can not find your product either. Give it a couple of days to see if they appear, if not you need to contact Google and find out what going on with them. Google base feeder is doing what it is suppose to do if this is the case.

[jdalton]

So it is not showing any errors and Google says they are active and viewable. If this is the case they should be there. I check and I can not find your product either. Give it a couple of days to see if they appear, if not you need to contact Google and find out what going on with them. Google base feeder is doing what it is suppose to do if this is the case.

I did contact google previously & got the below reply

"I looked into this issue and I see that you have
included CDATA in the item listing's attributes. Please note, CDATA is a special notation for data that allows you to use & (and ONLY &). Therefore, should not be used for
any other characters."

I don't understand this code, I know the CDATA comments are still use in this version of google_base.php?

[stitchnkitty]

OK now I am confused -
I was reviewing the sql data conversion and what I was wanting and hoping is that a basic feed constructed of my products - this is so I would not have to manually construct my own RSS2 feed - Which by the way has taken about 6 hours for about 80 products.

What it seems is that it goes to a google check out and not my zencart checkout? and the procedures in my website.

It talks about payment method and shipping schedules???
I guess i dont understand setting up parameters for the google base when they should be using the zencart checkout when a customer is pointed to the site?
????
Sorry to be so cueless!

[Tapper]

Hi All

I've been using this mod for over a year. Since last Thursday when I upload the xml file Google says 0 products inserted. I haven't changed anything on my site lately. I generally have around 14,000 - 15,000 products live and I upload every couple weeks. It's not a TOS violation causing this (Google lets you know if that's the issue). It's some error in the XML file creation all of a sudden. I've uplaoded via FTP and through the manual upload in the Base admin but no luck. I've generated 4 files and all have failed.

I'm running Zen 1.3.9d and EasyPopulate CSV. The XML file ends with </item> at line 263,990.
----------------

XML formatting error - Error

Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed.

Line Nr. Column Nr.
263,990 8

[Tapper]

Maybe this announcement from Google has somethi g to do with it?

Hello,

Starting in late August 2010, we are making some changes to how your products in the Electronics, Books, and Media categories may appear on Google Product Search. In order to provide as much information as possible to our users, we need your help in matching your products to our "product pages" where users are able to view useful data such as product specifications or reviews. If you are submitting products in the above categories for the US version of Google Product Search, please start including unique product identifiers, such as MPN, Brand, UPC or ISBN. We will make similar changes to Product Search in the UK and Germany at a later date.

These attributes will not be required for your feed to process correctly, however, to avoid seeing a drop in traffic from Product Search, we urge you to start including these unique identifiers as soon as possible. You can find unique product identifier information on Product Search product pages, under the "technical specifications" section for Electronics items, the "Tracks" or "Details" section for Media, and the "Overview" section for books.

For more details, including what specific identifiers you should include for each category of item, please see our Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/mercha...?answer=160161

Sincerely,

The Google Product Search Team

[stlnyc]

Will there be an update coming for this to comply with google's new changes?

[kamelion0927]

Just wanted to post this 'cause it took me a little while to figure out the solution and am hoping it helps someone else.

This mod worked great until I installed Ceon URI Mapping after which I kept getting directed to a Page Not Found page on my site every time that I tried to create a product feed.

After a few hours of reading through this as well as the URI Mapping forums and uninstalling/reinstalling the most recent versions of both modules, I finally figured out by reading (and re-reading) the configuration instructions for URI mapping that I needed to add another exclusion to my .htaccess file to have URI mapping not include the googlefroogle files.

So if you are getting errors on this mod AND you have Ceon URI Mapping installed, try going to the .htaccess file that you have the overrides for your URI mapping on and add

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/googlefroogle [NC]

to

# Don't rewrite cPanel directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend [NC]

and (hopefully) this mod will work.

Thanks for such a FABULOUS add-on!

[kamelion0927]

Alright - I've hit a wall. I've searched through this thread as well as the direct online thread (http ://www.numinix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6) and can't find bumpkis. Someone did ask this question before but never followed up.

I know this is a long shot but what the .

I've got Tabbed Products Pro installed on my website which causes the description on my Google Products to display in an extremely funky manner.

I've noticed that Google is picking up more than 80 characters so I was hoping that someone would be able to help me limit the characters downloaded to the description portion of the XML file or even (better yet) think of a more efficient way around my issue (besides changing the description in the file before it's uploaded of course).

Thanks in advance!

[kamelion0927]

Alright, I'll be a little more specific of what I'm looking for now that I've decided what it is.

I need a way to instruct the feeder to only pull the actual product description which is under a

<--------%Product Description%---------->

heading.

Any ideas of how to accomplish this?