Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I uploaded my first feed last night, then this morning when I woke up I noticed one of my competitors had beat all my prices. Has anyone had experience with this? Is there a program to monitor the prices of your products, I find it hard to believe that these guys could beat all of my prices while I was sleeping....

Does the feeder have an option for preventing items from being searchable through the API? Also does anyone use a competitor analysis tool?

If you make cPath for product url = true will it use the URL of your product as the category path? Is that where google wants you to say your tennis racket is: Sports > outdoor sports > tennis > tennis rackets.

So will that only work if your urls are SEO? Or if your Urls are alreadu SEO would this be redundant?

I've been having problems getting all of my products listed. I can generate a feed with 358 products, but Google only lists 208. I do get an XML formatting error - it doesn't say how many and I can't seem to find it. It shows one line - 4274 but I don't see a problem on that line.
I did correct the feed generator for quotation marks and ampersands. Would that cause the problem?
Any ideas?
Thanks

I have the google base add on and installed and when I try to run it i get the following. I'm not to sure of what my settings should be.:wacko:

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2010/02/07 21:11:11
Feed file - /home/www/zc138/feed/domain_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Login failed:
Connected to: uploads.google.com
Upload failed...

any suggestions?

When I create my feed approx 600 items are not being added to the feed. I am getting no errors, also approx 200 are not imported on the google side but does not give me an error why they are not accepted. Can someone point me in the right direction I really need to get this working on a consistent basis.

Also, when I check by model number other companies who sell the product are being pulled up but I am not in the list anywhere.

I am using googlebase feeder and Sitewide Mark up. When I export my products to google base it uploads the cost of the product instead of the marked up price. Has anyone experienced this before?

Where is the google base feed located?

https://www.mystore.com/????

i cant seem to find my base feed?
what is the default url to get my feed?

please help
thanks

mykiteshop:

Where is the google base feed located?

www.mystore.com/????

i cant seem to find my base feed?
what is the default url to get my feed?

please help
thanksDid you install the module???

hmm im technically imparied.

installed feed but dont know where to tell google base to pick it up

is it txt or xml?

where is it???????????????

mysite.com/(where is the feed)

thanks

the feed is created and stored in the /feed folder. Google Base doesn't pick it up at this location, you send it to them either by ftp or by going to the Google Merchant Center and uploading the file.

mykiteshop:

hmm im technically imparied.

installed feed but dont know where to tell google base to pick it up

is it txt or xml?

where is it???????????????

mysite.com/(where is the feed)

thanks
Doesn't require any technical skill at all to locate the feeds or send them to Google.. jrennaker points you in the right direction as to where to locate the feeds..

I would also suggest that you re-read the readme instructions that come with this module.. Lots of information there.. also please read the Google Merchant FAQs as well.. All of this will give you a good sense of how this all works..

Will this work with Zen Cart 1.3.0.2? I've tried upgrading my cart to the newest version but have failed twice.

Does anyone know where to find the reasons that a feed was disapproved? My feed was found disapproved so I would like to know how to solve this and to know why. Anyone has good idea what it might be?

kittykittykitty:

Does anyone know where to find the reasons that a feed was disapproved? My feed was found disapproved so I would like to know how to solve this and to know why. Anyone has good idea what it might be?Have you contacted Google support?? That would be where I would start..

I have installed the Numinix Product Fields, UPC/ISBN Product Fields, and the Google Base. After several days of work I have product fields accepting UPC codes, I have Google Feed generating XML for Google Base, and I have Google Base accepting 100% of my items. This was big for me!

Now after all that, I have noticed that when I go in to edit a product or create a new product, the Date Available: field at the top of the page not longer has a box to enter a date in. The text for Date Available is still there, just no entry box. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what could fix this or where exactly the code would be that would control this?

Thanks

jimmyz911:

I have installed the Numinix Product Fields, UPC/ISBN Product Fields, and the Google Base. After several days of work I have product fields accepting UPC codes, I have Google Feed generating XML for Google Base, and I have Google Base accepting 100% of my items. This was big for me!

Now after all that, I have noticed that when I go in to edit a product or create a new product, the Date Available: field at the top of the page not longer has a box to enter a date in. The text for Date Available is still there, just no entry box. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what could fix this or where exactly the code would be that would control this?

ThanksWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY off topic for this thread as the issue is not likely caused by the Google Base Feeder mod.. You might want to post this in the support thread for one of those other mods which ACTUALLY modified your product add/edit files..

DivaVocals:

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY off topic for this thread as the issue is not likely caused by the Google Base Feeder mod.. You might want to post this in the support thread for one of those other mods which ACTUALLY modified your product add/edit files..

Thank you. I was not sure which upgrade caused the issue. I will check the other two I installed to find a solution.

I did notice many users writing in with issues with Google Base not accepting 100% of their products when manually uploaded. Status shows 100 of 150 for example. I did not see many solutions to this posted. I found that if I change my settings in Google Base for the data feed file from Automatic detect encoding to UTF-8, all products were accepted. I didn't even have to reload the XML file, it just reprocessed the last one loaded to 100% status. I guess Google Base is having trouble autodetecting the encoding of the Google Base Feeder XML file. Hope this helps someone save time as it took me hours to make this discovery.

Is there any way to add support for the "part number" field? I believe this is important on google but its not supported here...

Regarding my earlier post for people who wish to get products featured in more than one Currency in more than one country (copy below)

I've managed to find a way to do this now, but it would be great if somone could advise how I can change settings or code to make this automated.

What I do is go to the following - Configuration>Google Base Feeder Configuration - and then change the currency from GBP to USD. Then I go to Tools > Google Base Feeder and click on 'Create Product Field' then after it is created, right click on **'View' **and save the XML file, and this file contains all prices in USD not GBP. I then go back to Configuration>Google Base Feeder Configuration and change the currency back to GBP so the automated process will not be affected for UK target audience in GBP.

I then rename the XML file to the name I have for USD currency targeting Unites States on Google Base website, and then manually upload the file. And it works.

It look like I'll have to do this every month (if I remember!), unless somone can advise on how to get this automated ?!? :(

I installed this great MOD before Christmas, and it works well. Also set up a Cron Job so that the feed is uploaded to Google base automatically.

This is my problem. Our website shows the prices in two currencies GBP Pounds £ and USD Dollars $. Our default is pounds, buty we also show the $ equivalent on every page. The Google Base Feeder creates a product feed with the prices in £, and this is uploaded auytomatically to Google base to a data feed Targeting the United Kingdom. What I want to do is create another feed with all the prices marked in USD, and upload it to another Google base data feed that has the target country set to the United States. If this could be created automatically and updated to Google Base like the GBP version, then great, but if not, does anyone know how to do this manually?

Thanks for your time.