Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[dinki]

I did a little research and it is related to 'family safe' option. Unfortunately, I'd really like to keep my items in the 'safe search' part of google products as if I change to 'safe search', then I will only have my products show up if the user has changed their settings to allow for the 'safe search off' mode. I guess google just decided to check to make sure my products were in compliance.

It'd be really cool if this plugin would allow for setting the feed for either 'safe search' or not and then filtered any offensive words based on a list of words. I'd be happy just to know where I can look to try and add this check myself. I know enough php to hack it in but don't have a whole lot of time right now to dissect the code. Any help is appreciated. I'll share my hack if anyone else is interested.

[dgent]

Is there anyway we can exclude product descriptions from the feed, and just keep the product title and image?

[US Purchase]

I have been with Google products from day one. I have had over a dozen feeds that were problem free for many years. Suddenly and without any notice they disapproved all product feeds. It took two weeks to get a response to my enquiry. They told me they had determined that I was a drop shipper and did not own my inventory. Where did they get that from? Amazon maybe. I sent them a video of my warehouse and some documents. After a few more weeks they sent me an email saying they had determined that I was not a drop shipper. I put the feeds up again. After a few days all but one were disapproved again. After a few weeks I got an email stating that I had duplicate products on multiple websites. Which was true but it was less than a dozen products spread across a few websites. Why disapprove them all? I fixed that and was able to get a few feeds approved. Today Google disapproved all the feeds except one stating I had invalid media and book identifiers. I have had to lay off 36 employees because of Google's shenanigans. It seems that when a feed is disapproved you loose page ranking. I was number one now I am on the third page. Amazon has taken over my original position. Is this some sort of collusion between Google and Amazon? Just in time to knock out the competition before the Christmas season begins. What ever happened to the notion of communication? Why can't Google send an email stating the problem and giving a few weeks to comply? Is there an alternative to Google products? Are other people having the same problem? Is there a better way to communicate with Google other than the email form provided online?

[Lian]

Hi, I have seen the question asked several times before on this thread, but cant seem to find an answer.

I am using zencart Zen Cart v1.3.8a/v1.3.8

Im not sure how to find which version of googlebase feeder is installed.

I have the option to sellect "New" in the configuration, and have done so, but google rejects the feed saying there is no condition attribute.

Any help much appriciated.

[thomaswhiteeagle]

I've installed google base feeder, latest version. It is working flawlessly so far in that the uploaded xml file to google was accepted and everything looked perfectly fine.
I also have CEON URL Mapper, latest version which is a great module as well I might add.
Anyone know how to make base feeder work with CEON url mapping so the urls mapped into the feed are the seo friendly urls? Have searched this thread and don't really see an answer.

[fusionsp]

Is there anyway we can exclude product descriptions from the feed, and just keep the product title and image?

Well while im sure there is a way to do this...that would throw you into a secondary issue of not having product desc and they would prob disallow those as well.

but on a different note, I have been looking around and havent seen anyone mention it yet to be worked on but is there any idea on if this is going to include their new mandatory desc for books/media?

[buildingblocks]

Has anyone had success with the googlebase isbn/upc feature?

I activated the upc/isbn feature. The isbn number uploads in the feed but in my google merchant account, in the feed errors, google recognizes it as an invalid upc number.

My feed shows the isbn number in the correct field

<g:isbn>0517093103</g:isbn>

This was a few months ago and I had asked about it on the google boards and never got a resolution.

I'd love to hear about the experience others have had with it.

[kburner]

Has anyone had success with the googlebase isbn/upc feature?

I activated the upc/isbn feature. The isbn number uploads in the feed but in my google merchant account, in the feed errors, google recognizes it as an invalid upc number.

My feed shows the isbn number in the correct field

<g:isbn>0517093103</g:isbn>

This was a few months ago and I had asked about it on the google boards and never got a resolution.

I'd love to hear about the experience others have had with it.

Are you using product book type? If yes, how did you get zencart to show isbn for google feed? You activated isbn/upc feature? Do you mean in google?

Thanks, Kim

[buildingblocks]

I have googlebase 1.8.2 installed along with the mod, numinix product fields.

In admin configuration > googlebase feed configuration - I have

UPC/ISBN
If using Numinix Product Fields, include UPC/ISBN? - this is set to true

and

Numinix Product Fields
Activate Numinix Product Fields (requires separate add-on)? - this is set to true

I do not use, product book type.

Numinix says, Numinix product fields is all that is needed.

When I go to my google merchant account and check my Feed status summary it shows

Item Warnings - 11 items with warnings 11 items affected
11
Invalid UPC value (11 warnings)

Please make sure the value is a valid UPC value.
Learn more.
Examples: Examples:
Item Nr. Line Nr. Value
89 1,515 0801967295
136 2,315 0345303075
163 2,777 0619059206
170 2,897 0448089068
174 2,968 0517093103


So for example the first item 89

Item Nr. Line Nr. Value
89 1,515 0801967295

When I open my xml file and find the value that google says is a upc number - 0801967295, it shows

<g:isbn>0801967295</g:isbn>

I don't use UPC numbers at all. My xml file doesn't have any upc fields in it, only isbn.

oh, and my zen cart is version 1.3.9d

[kburner]

I have googlebase 1.8.2 installed along with the mod, numinix product fields.

In admin configuration > googlebase feed configuration - I have

UPC/ISBN
If using Numinix Product Fields, include UPC/ISBN? - this is set to true

and

Numinix Product Fields
Activate Numinix Product Fields (requires separate add-on)? - this is set to true

I do not use, product book type.

Numinix says, Numinix product fields is all that is needed.

When I go to my google merchant account and check my Feed status summary it shows

Item Warnings - 11 items with warnings 11 items affected
11
Invalid UPC value (11 warnings)

Please make sure the value is a valid UPC value.
Learn more.
Examples: Examples:
Item Nr. Line Nr. Value
89 1,515 0801967295
136 2,315 0345303075
163 2,777 0619059206
170 2,897 0448089068
174 2,968 0517093103


So for example the first item 89

Item Nr. Line Nr. Value
89 1,515 0801967295

When I open my xml file and find the value that google says is a upc number - 0801967295, it shows

<g:isbn>0801967295</g:isbn>

I don't use UPC numbers at all. My xml file doesn't have any upc fields in it, only isbn.

oh, and my zen cart is version 1.3.9d

I do not have those attributes....
UPC/ISBN
If using Numinix Product Fields, include UPC/ISBN?

Numinix Product Fields
Activate Numinix Product Fields (requires separate add-on)?

I may have an older version. I will have to check. Thanks, Kim