Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi All,

I am having a problem with my Google Base products that wasn't there before. I had everything set up correctly, I had my Google Base published perfectly and searchable items apeared in Google Products perfectly, all until a few days ago. Now I go into Google Base and find the message "YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY PUBLISHED ITEMS". I have re-uploaded my data-feed and when I click the data-feed tab, it says, "585 of 585 items inserted (Items will expire on Sep 27, 2009 10:43 am BST.) ". However, when I click on the active-items tab it says, "You do not have any published items.".

When I click on the performance-tab it shows the charts which detail product performance, but when I scroll along to last Sunday's date, the chart takes a complete nose dive indicating that for some reason my products were made inactive on that date.

Can anyone please help? This has caused me a very noticeable decrease in sales and site traffic. My site was really picking up but over the last week or so I've been getting hardly any sales. It's only now that I've noticed why :-(

My website is http://www.limelites.co.uk
google-base display-name is 'Limelites'
account id is '5533149'
example url to a product in my data-feed is 'http://www.limelites.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_4&products_id=684'

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help....

I can make the xml files and then it says they were uploaded, but the link to see the FTP content just shows 0 in there

If i log in with my FTP client i cant see any files in there

It goes to processing in Base, for an hour or so and then say that there are no products...

I think this is because i am using Simple SEO URLS?

The file that is uploaded has the NEW rewrittedn URLS!

Is that correct... if using SSU should i be uploading the original URLS or the SEO urls?

limelites:

Hi All,

I am having a problem with my Google Base products that wasn't there before. I had everything set up correctly, I had my Google Base published perfectly and searchable items apeared in Google Products perfectly, all until a few days ago. Now I go into Google Base and find the message "YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY PUBLISHED ITEMS". I have re-uploaded my data-feed and when I click the data-feed tab, it says, "585 of 585 items inserted (Items will expire on Sep 27, 2009 10:43 am BST.) ". However, when I click on the active-items tab it says, "You do not have any published items.".

When I click on the performance-tab it shows the charts which detail product performance, but when I scroll along to last Sunday's date, the chart takes a complete nose dive indicating that for some reason my products were made inactive on that date.

Can anyone please help? This has caused me a very noticeable decrease in sales and site traffic. My site was really picking up but over the last week or so I've been getting hardly any sales. It's only now that I've noticed why :-(

My website is http://www.limelites.co.uk
google-base display-name is 'Limelites'
account id is '5533149'
example url to a product in my data-feed is 'http://www.limelites.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_4&products_id=684'

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help....

I had the same problem, found it lock in on my _LRG images which are to large for Google. I change the coding to take my small images and all work again.

I'm out on a fire right now so I don't have the file to tell you what to change.

Sorry if the answer to this question is obvious but I get confused easily! Does this module let me submit my products through my admin area directly to Google Base. Without having to download to my computer and then upload the file? :unsure:

thinkdeal:

Sorry if the answer to this question is obvious but I get confused easily! Does this module let me submit my products through my admin area directly to Google Base. Without having to download to my computer and then upload the file? :unsure:

No it does not. You have 3 choices. You can manually download/upload the file to google base. You can set up a cron job to do it from your host company. Or what I am doing, in google base there is the option to have google base fetch it themselves. I chose this option since google offered it. Also it doesnt add any more stress to your own server.
There is the ability to create the file and upload it from the same place, but I have not been able to make that work. Hope this helps

No thanks for your help, but I'm still confused! You said:

1. You can manually download/upload the file to Google base. (I understand this option)
2. You can set up a cron job to do it from your host company. (no idea what you mean)
3. in Google base there is the option to have Google base fetch it themselves. (I would like you to explain this one)

I was spoiled, my old site was fully customised to submit to Google Base inside my control panel I just pushed a button, and then another button to submit a site map.

I had hoped this module brought that level of comfort. :dontgetit

ok...

At google base site when you type in the data feed file and I upload it for the first time to make sure everything is working. Then on the data feed tab you will then see your file listed. There is a line titled uploads and under there is schedule. If you click the edit button its self explanatory. I set mine to do it once every monday at like 5am. It then grabs the file from your site.

VERY IMPORTANT: Every time you add products to your site you will need to create the file again.

Then assuming you have already used this before, you will need to check and see if all the products were entered or any errors exist.

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8 and google_base_froogle_feeder_1-7-4. I would like to replace the description with my meta description instead of the product description. Is that something that can be easily changed.

I can usually find the code and if it's a simple substitution I think I should be able to do it.

Thanks,
Ken

I have Easy populate installed and one of the download links is:

Download Froogle tab-delimited .txt file

If I just download this file and then upload it to my Google Base account then that should work. Is this corret or am I missing something? :frusty:

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8 and Google Base Feeder 1.7.4. I have made all the suggested modifications to the php.ini, .htaccess, and cart admin settings, but the feed file creation process stalls after about 30 - 40 seconds. 1 out of 20 tries it will complete. I have over 4000 products in my store. Anybody have any ideas??

Hi all,

I have installed the google base for zencart and I am having problems creating the feed file. When I click on the Create Product Feed link, all I am getting is a blank page.

I am trying to debug googlefroogle.php and added some echo statements to see where it stops.

In the following lines, it is supposed to get the value of DIR_WS_CLASSES from one of the includes file. However when I checked application_top.php, this variable is not declared. So I went ahead and commented out that line and added another line to hardcode the google_base.php location. Now this variable GOOGLE_BASE_SHIPPING_RATE_METHOD - where should be coming from? I thought it should be from google_base.php, but when I opened this file, I dont see a declaration for this variable.

What am I missing here? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Below are the first few lines from googlefroogle.php.

/
require('includes/application_top.php');
/ require(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'google_base.php'); */
require('includes/classes/google_base.php');
echo "hello";
echo GOOGLE_BASE_SHIPPING_RATE_METHOD;
$google_base = new google_base();

Hi,

my prices are in EURO and my language is in English so they do not qualify for any target country. What I want to do is in my feed to have the prices in UK sterling. Is there a way to have the prices converted into the feed?

Thanks.

Is there a way to include the category of the product in the XML feed ?

I have installed the version for 1.3.8 and think I have set up the daily cron job to automatically keep it updated, will the feed just update the products that are not already there or overwrite the existing ones, needing to wait another 24 hours for them to show up (by which time it would have updated again), so in theory never showing the products?

Sorry if it sounds like a stupid question but I really don't mind admitting that I know nothing about it, so if anyone could shed some light ;)

chabbu:

Hi

Is there a way of getting this mod NOT to strip out double (") and single (') quotation marks?

Did anybody find a solution to this? I am particularly interested to retain the " in my product titles where I give size info like this:

diameter 13"

I guess I could convert to just using

diameter 13 in.

As we have limits on the title length, I would prefer to stick with just " instead of in.

Sorry if this has been posted. I searched the thread for "source" and none of the results looked applicable.

I'm wondering if the latest version of this mod has the capability to add a ?source=googleps to the end of Google Base URLs.

As I understand it, adding that allows us to see Google Base traffic in Google Analytics:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=25221

Thanks!

mydanilo:

Did anybody find a solution to this? I am particularly interested to retain the " in my product titles where I give size info like this:

diameter 13"

I guess I could convert to just using

diameter 13 in.

As we have limits on the title length, I would prefer to stick with just " instead of in.

You have to add some code to the xml sanitizer to make a change. I used the sanitizer to change the " to in for google, leaving my web site as is.

I'm at the station fire in CA, when I get back to my PC I can list the change for you.... it's a simple add a line to the code.

I wonder if anyone can help me out here. I have 726 products listed on my site, 76 of which are sold out. So, when I generate my data feed, it states as it should, 650 generated.

My problems is when I upload the feed to Google. It then states, 630 of 650 inserted.

Why wont it insert all 650?

UPDATE I tried uploading my feed as two seperate .xml files, but for some weird reason, both files were missing 20 items. So, I was getting 305 of 325 inserted in each file! It seems that no matter what xml file I upload, Google Base is refusing 20 items every time.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or know what could be wrong or where to start searching for a solution?

smap:

I'm wondering if the latest version of this mod has the capability to add a ?source=googleps to the end of Google Base URLs.

I added this:

$link .= '&source=googleps';

at line 204 of googlefroogle.php (1.7.4) and I think I should be in business.