Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

Just installed this mod and I am having problems..

When I click on Step 1 to generate the file I get the following errors:

Warning: main(includes/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\n8pbm\mccamping\googlefroogle.php on line 130

Warning: main(includes/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\n8pbm\mccamping\googlefroogle.php on line 130

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/header.php' (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in c:\hosting\webhost4life\member\n8pbm\mccamping\googlefroogle.php on line 130

Zen Cart 1.3.0.2
Newest Froogle Mod from link on page 6.

Thanks.

I had no problem with any of my items using EasyPopulate to export a froogle feed. Also I find googlebase much more responsive and quicker to update than the old froogle... but I do notice my sales have dropped right around the time googlebase came out. This may be coincidental.. but is anyone else seeing negative sales effects?

qhome:

I had no problem with any of my items using EasyPopulate to export a froogle feed. Also I find googlebase much more responsive and quicker to update than the old froogle... but I do notice my sales have dropped right around the time googlebase came out. This may be coincidental.. but is anyone else seeing negative sales effects?

qhome, I have noticed a drop too but I am not sure if it has anything to do with googlebase. The one thing I know I don't like is that google now hides the froogle menu option when you go to http://www.google.com. You actually have to click on more to see froogle. They are hiding froogle in put in its place video...:shocking:

Google still displays your products at the top of search results if your price is competitive and it is being searched by the user

JLA:

Google still displays your products at the top of search results if your price is competitive and it is being searched by the user

Competitive pricing is a relative term when it comes to Google Froogle as many retailers submit product feeds to Froogle with lower prices than on their website just for position. It's against Google's policy but many times when I click on a competitor's listing, the price listed on Froogle is often lower than the price on their website. It's even more true with listings from eBay Store and some comparison shopping sites.

a_berezin:

1. What languages define in your cart?
   Code, name, directory

2. What curriences define in your cart?
   Title, code

1. English - /home directory/includes/languages/english
2. US Dollar - USD

Yuo have only 1 language and only one curriency?

JLA:

Google still displays your products at the top of search results if your price is competitive and it is being searched by the user

Yea i still see my site up there... funny thing tho, and I'm not sure if its just because my site images have become more popular recently, but I have the user tracking mod and lately I've been noticing a massive increase in referrers from "images.google.com?search=xxxx.jpg" and they get a link to my images. I get them from all over the world for people who search the names of items that I have in the image database. They are mostly just one click people.

I'm thinking I've gained higher popularity on the images directory in the last month than I had in the past 8.

The next question is do I change the names of the pics to something less descriptive (instead of SonyTV.jpg, use 1d2452.jpg instead) or do I accept the slight hit in bandwidth and accept the extra free advertising, hoping that when people come to steal my images, they also stop in to shop...

thoughts?

a_berezin:

Yuo have only 1 language and only one curriency?

Yes .. for right now.

v 1.2.5 16.08.2006 19:42

1. Don't use redirect to setting up language and currency - directly use google froogle settings in sql-request.

You really have to keep an eye on image/bandwidth theft.

We have a large problem with that especially with sites in Mexico and South America.

We have a utility on our forums that prevents image hotlinking but we do not use it on our store site due to some images we have being used on other sites with our authorization.

We track all of these and when they build up enough in traffic on one image, we will switch that out with a free advert for our site. It is usually several weeks before the site owner catches it.

We are now using the watermark on our large images so we do not think the large images will be a further problem.

BTW - does anyone know any other FREE alternatives to Froogle that accept feeds at no cost like they do"?

a_berezin:

v 1.2.5 16.08.2006 19:42

1. Don't use redirect to setting up language and currency - directly use google froogle settings in sql-request.

Awesome!! Thank you soooo much for your time and effort on this contribution, it is very much appreciated. It worked like a dream with the latest version.

All the best!

JLA:

We have a utility on our forums that prevents image hotlinking but we do not use it on our store site due to some images we have being used on other sites with our authorization.
You may enable hotlink from your other sites
For ex. .htaccess

<FilesMatch "\.(php|phtml|php3|inc|c|htm|shtm|shtml|pl|cgi)$">
	Order Allow,Deny
	Deny from all
</FilesMatch> 

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.this-site.com" local_ref=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://this-site.com" local_ref=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.another-site.com" local_ref=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://another-site.com" local_ref=1
<FilesMatch ".(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|png)">
	Order Allow,Deny
	Allow from env=local_ref
</FilesMatch>

Andrew,
when installing the Google feed. I have a problem, the google feed is not going to "TOOLS" menu. Please help.

Spasibo.
Misha.

Alright, this may be silly but...where the heck is the link? The link in the "contributed add-ons" thread gives me the older version that I already have installed. I've cruised through this thread and impressively managed to miss any links to the current version.

Where is it? :-]

Heh, NM.

Got it.

A_berezin, thanks for the updates. The mod installs and update to Google Base. The only problem is that it errored. These are the two errors:

Attribute was incorrectly specified - shipping sub-attribute
Attribute was incorrectly specified - sub-attribute of shipping

I did check the file that was generated and indeed the above two titles are column headings for two configuration options:

Show Ship To Locations
Lowest Shipping Costs Status

However, setting the above two options to false solves the problem.

BlessIsaacola, thanks!
v 1.2.6 19.08.2006 7:30

1. Remove all old unsupported Google Base Attributes (http://base.google.com/base/attributes.html%29. Apply update_1_2_6.sql patch for db updates.

Misha,

itguru:

when installing the Google feed. I have a problem, the google feed is not going to "TOOLS" menu. Please help.
You install sql-patch googlefroogle.sql?

a_berezin:

BlessIsaacola, thanks!
v 1.2.6 19.08.2006 7:30

1. Remove all old unsupported Google Base Attributes (http://base.google.com/base/attributes.html%29. Apply update_1_2_6.sql patch for db updates.

Thanks for the prompt release of the update. I noticed you introduced a new attribute in the configuration: **The shipping options available for an item **This currently allows True or False when Google Base is expecting a different value. The generated file shows true for that field when enabled.

Is this the expected result? Thanks!