Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hello again,
Wondering about an issue on my google base item listings.

When I go edit any of the items uploaded by my last feed, the Product Type shows the manufacturer of the vehicle that the part is for. For example if my item description says "03-05 Accord DX/LX/EX L4 w/o MAF AEM Short Ram Intake", google automatically enters "Honda" in the Product Type field of my Base item.

I'm unsure whether google doing this is beneficial to my listing. Before when I would manually enter a product, I would enter "Automotive" in the Product Type field of my Base item.

Everything on my website is to do with Automotive products. Is there any way I can make Google Base not assume what to put in there? Or is there something about the feed that I need to change to get the Product Type field to show "Automotive"?

Thank you in advance! :D

Tim M:

I posted this in another area and got no answer, so here it is again.

After uploading to Google Base, I can search for a specific item by using very specific search terms. My items show in the results.

However, when I use a little more generic search, none of my products are returned.

For example, searching for "4 aces poker chip $500" will return my product listing, but "4 aces poker chip" does not.

So, what am I doing wrong? Or, what do I need to do to get the products listed correctly?

Thanks.

It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. It is just that there's probably a lot more competition for a less specific search term. How many pages of results are you looking through?

blakdeth77:

It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. It is just that there's probably a lot more competition for a less specific search term. How many pages of results are you looking through?

I'm sorting the results by price. I know what my price is and where it should show in the results.

Tim M:

I'm sorting the results by price. I know what my price is and where it should show in the results.

I just had that same issue not long ago. It cleared up when I started using the datafeeds instead. I believe Base choked on something like an illegal character. The quotation mark was the baddie that was causing all the grief with google.

Have you already compared a sample item against the Editorial Guidelines?
http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=59466

All I can locate for the bit about having "illegal characters" in your text is a forum post here:
http://groups.google.com/group/base-help-bulk/browse_thread/thread/13b3933664c6c8af?pli=1

Hope that helps!:smile:

I have zencart 1.3.8a loaded and have 1.7.3a google base feeder loaded. Is there a reason why the google base feeder is not processing all of my products? I have 17,000 products on my site, but the feeder is only processing 5099 of them.

smoke133:

I have zencart 1.3.8a loaded and have 1.7.3a google base feeder loaded. Is there a reason why the google base feeder is not processing all of my products? I have 17,000 products on my site, but the feeder is only processing 5099 of them.

Turn on the simple debug and it will give you 11,901 reasons!

Hi, I am having same issue with + or - 14,000 products. It only puts out roughly 5000+ of them.. I am a newbie and would like to know how to fix this issue.. Any help would be great.. Thanks in advance.. Jim

https://www.familyoutdoorstore.com
https://www.wellbournegroup.com/articles

just noticed today that all feeds that I upload fail.

I manually uploaded yesterday as I added new products and it was successful. Today my cron run automatically and feed failed. Now I just repeated manually and google reports failed again.

Here is the message:
Outcome: Data feed upload failure
Number of items processed: 0
Number of inserted items: 0
Uploaded at: February 27, 2009 10:59:18 AM EST
Processed at: February 27, 2009 11:03:23 AM EST

Not sure what is going on. This happens from all my stores. Maybe google base has a problem? Does anybody else see the same today? I will try tomorrow and report back...

All of my feeds to Google Base failed today...that includes cron jobs and manual. Perhaps something is broken over at Google. I got the same information (which is really no info):

Outcome: Data feed upload failure
Number of items processed: 0
Number of inserted items: 0

Thanks, this is what I was thinking too... maybe we just have to wait until tomorrow and we shall see.

Hi,
I'm really sorry, I'm new to this. I have zen cart version 1.3.8 an installed Google Base Feeder Version: 1.7.1a fallowing your instructions. As a result I have fallowing notice: 8 statements processed. Now I can find Google Base Feeder in "CONFIGURATIONS" but not in "TOOLS".... Please help....

Hello All,

I just Installed the google base feeder 1.7.1a with Zen cart 1.3.8a. I installed every sql file that was in the SQL updates directory, then Installed the update_1_7_1.sql file all with no problem. Then tried to install the googlefroogle.sql and get dupplicate error. The Admin->Configuration->Google Base Configuration exist and I set the ftp. The Admin->Tools>Google Base Feeder exist and I ran it, but the products were blank. Been reading for couple hours and have not found solution. Do I need to unistall? Please help!:frusty:

The Duplicate error was:
1062 Duplicate entry 'GOOGLE_BASE_PASV' for key 2
in: (Then there was a long list)

Was the feed directory blank? If yes, you might need to set the write permissions for the feed directory.

Thank you for your reply. I just verified the feed directory is 777.When I select product feed this link opens: http://peaceful-planet.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp but it is just a blank page.

pmorelli:

The Duplicate error was:
1062 Duplicate entry 'GOOGLE_BASE_PASV' for key 2
in: (Then there was a long list)

I take it you got this error while trying to copy and paste the SQL updates?? If so, the field that the script is trying to create was already there. I think it'd be safest for you to either A: Perform the uninstall as completely as you can or B: Recover to the backup that you made before you installed this module. Then Try the install again from the beginning.

Also hopefully Mr. Numinix has an ear open about this thread so I can pick his brain again... When I upload my feed file to Google Base, for some reason I get some extra fields in the product details. I view my active items, click edit next to one of them, and under the Details section, I have anywhere from 2 to 5 instances of a custom field titled "c_condition". I can click "click to remove" next to the item to get those extra detail fields to go away, but doing this for 450 items is no small task! Ha.

I don't see the "c_condition" field anywhere in the xml feed file that is generated by your script. Should I be looking to Google for the answer to this one?

:frusty:

And is there a way that I can modify the script to always enter "Automotive" for the product_type such as below? Im sure you know this already but currently it grabs the manufacturer category (i.e. Ford or Honda or GMC) from the top level parent folder.

<g:product_type><![CDATA[Automotive]]></g:product_type>

The feed directory is empty except the index file that I put in there. Is it possible that the google sitmap install that I installed a while back is casue issue? I ran all 13 updates in the sql updates directory, then ran the update_1_7_1.sql update that was in main directory. Then I had error when I tryied to run the googlefroogle.sql. Was this the correct procedure?

Thanks for any help I can get!

wellbourne:

Hi, I am having same issue with + or - 14,000 products. It only puts out roughly 5000+ of them.. I am a newbie and would like to know how to fix this issue.. Any help would be great.. Thanks in advance.. Jim

https://www.familyoutdoorstore.com
https://www.wellbournegroup.com/articles

:frusty:

Can anybody help with the above quoted issue... Don't know how to correct..

Thanks

pmorelli:

The feed directory is empty except the index file that I put in there. Is it possible that the google sitmap install that I installed a while back is casue issue? I ran all 13 updates in the sql updates directory, then ran the update_1_7_1.sql update that was in main directory. Then I had error when I tryied to run the googlefroogle.sql. Was this the correct procedure?

Thanks for any help I can get!

Actually I believe there may have been a misinterpretation of the directions here. If you had begun this installation with no previous installation of the google feed, then you should only have copied and pasted the contents of the googlefroogle.sql file to your "SQL Updates" window so that only those commands are run on your database. The other update files are for those users wishing to upgrade their previous installation to version 1.7.1 . I would recommend (as long as this is a new installation for you) that you follow the uninstallation directions included with this release, and start over again.

If you have data already in your database, this might not be easy, or maybe you'd like to have someone familiar with MySQL databases look at the files you installed, and see if they can create a custom backup for you so that the tables can be re populated once the uninstall and reinstall is finished.