Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

idle:

Thanks for your quick reply Howard, I am guessing the .xml file i am using is from my main directory/feeds/ folder? Which in my case is domain_products.xml

That would be correct. Happy listing! :)

I'm having a major issue with the GoogleBase file only pulling 3 products, out of 1000! Anyone else have this problem, and how to fix it?

jackie.taferner:

I'm having a major issue with the GoogleBase file only pulling 3 products, out of 1000! Anyone else have this problem, and how to fix it?
Have you ran the GOOGLE_BASE_DEBUG yet in admin/confoguration/google_base? If not run that and see what kind of errors it's showing if any. Make sure your feed cache is set to 777. Do you have the wordpress add on installed? There is and issue with the wordpress module. It conflicts with this module for some reason and not just this one with others also.

Danielle:

I am suddenly having a new problem with this mod. I am still unable to upload it to Google using FTP, it says Login failed, Upload failed. However, I was able to upload manually with no issues. Now suddenly when I try to upload manually, it says 0 of 1 items were inserted and it says there was an XML formatting error. Nothing has changed and I even tried uploading just one category of products and it still gives the same error. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks!
Google has a feature in the Google Base account admin where you can define how often you want Google Base to cral your feed file. I suggest everyone use this feature instead of the automatic features of the Google Base Feeder as it will help reduce server load and chance of missed uploads due to errors.
http://www.numinix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=300#p1879
If you are having problems creating a feed, you need to make sure you have a dedicated IP address on your server

yframediscounts:

Can any one help, I want to add the words "Free Shipping" to the beginning of the <description> in the output file, ie just before the main description text.

I know you will have to edit the googlefroogle.php

I know it is simple but cant seem to add a string to the begging of this output

Ie

<description> FREE SHIPPING. main body text .</description>

This can be done by changing line 330 in file STORE_ROOT\googlefroogle.php from:

$content["description"] = '<description>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($products_description, true) . '</description>';

to

$content["description"] = 'FREE DELIVERY! ' . '<description>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($products_description, true) . '</description>';

Adnan Rana
PC Point Ltd

adnanrana:

This can be done by changing line 330 in file STORE_ROOT\googlefroogle.php from:

$content["description"] = '<description>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($products_description, true) . '</description>';

> 
> to
> 
> ```php
$content["description"] = 'FREE DELIVERY! ' . '<description>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($products_description, true) . '</description>';

Adnan Rana
PC Point Ltd

Sorry, just tested the above and it doesn't work.

Edit STORE_ROOT\googlefroogle.php, and change the line 161 from:

$products_description = $products->fields['products_description'];

to:

$products_description = 'FREE DELIVERY. ' . $products->fields['products_description'];

Adnan Rana
PC Point Ltd

If anyone has successfully got this working and Google is displaying your sitelinks, AND you have time to setup for my site, please shoot me a PM and a quote to do it. I just don' have any time to spend working on it and would rather hire someone to do it.

P.S. And, will it work with version 1.3.9c, without a re-install??

Hi, I recently upgraded to the latest Google Base Feeder. When I uploaded the generated feed to Google, there was this XML formatting error. Please help. Thanks.

Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed.
Learn more.
Examples:
Examples:
Line Nr. Column Nr.
14 78

dealbyethan.com:

Hi, I recently upgraded to the latest Google Base Feeder. When I uploaded the generated feed to Google, there was this XML formatting error. Please help. Thanks.

Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed.
Learn more.
Examples:
Examples:
Line Nr. Column Nr.
14 78

That sounds like the error I got when I was using the old version. Numinix just recently(within 2 weeks) released a new version on their website that corrects that problem. The only thing I had to do was edit the googlefroogle.php file line 111 to say "encoding=UTF-16" and everything worked fine.

Yes, the problem is fixed after upgrading to the latest version. Thanks.

what is the max amount of items that can be displayed via rss feed , atm the max it will do is 250 , we have 2000+ parts in the store , how do i get all items in the feed , i ahve increased the items in the rss feed to 250 , anything after that stalls the script , and does not show ,

http://www.ultracheapauto.com.au/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=products&cPath=
http://www.ultracheapauto.com.au

Hi There,

I have installed this mod and everything is working fine and i have uploaded 600 products onto google base and has approved it.

But i cannot seem to find my products on google shopping site as on the dash board it does state that my products are searchable... any advice please?

Ok, I've installed the latest mod (in fact, i completely uninstalled the old one and installed the newest just to be sure).

It's still only pulling 3 products from the store (out of 1073). Are there specific store settings, or product descriptions, or something else that would cause this?

kevinme:

Hi There,

I have installed this mod and everything is working fine and i have uploaded 600 products onto google base and has approved it.

But i cannot seem to find my products on google shopping site as on the dash board it does state that my products are searchable... any advice please?

It actually took mine a few days to 'appear' in searches and then they were way down the list as they were new(something about 'relative importance' and aparrently new items aren't relatively important I guess):cool: But keep checking and try doing some specific searches for your specific items(gold bracelet 24k 11 inches) or something like that and see what happens. But hang in there, they'll appear.

jackie.taferner:

Ok, I've installed the latest mod (in fact, i completely uninstalled the old one and installed the newest just to be sure).

It's still only pulling 3 products from the store (out of 1073). Are there specific store settings, or product descriptions, or something else that would cause this?

well.... it's all pretty grey to me, but, I do know that product descriptions have to be a certain length and prices have to be valid(and a positive number), for example "call for price" shows up as a price of zero(0.00) and is ignored by the googlefroogle application. I have several large items that fall victim to that on my site. Also, check your setup and make sure you're not offsetting the start of your item list(skipping the first 'X' items)... That's all I can really think of. Wish I could offer more advice.
:blink:

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)?

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)?

I did some digging around on Google and found this link:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/base/thread?tid=4c1f4de3ca7e8e2f&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/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160085

appears to have the specs to all of the attributes.

Hopefully that helps a little bit anyhow.

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?

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.....:unsure:

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!