The SellerDeck Google Product Feed enables you to submit your products to Google Product Search. Normally, your feed needs to be re-uploaded to Google each time you change the contents of your online catalogue. However, the need for this can be removed by using Google’s Merchant Center tools and making a few small changes in SellerDeck.
Firstly, you need to generate your Google Product Feed and have it uploaded to your web site. To do this, follow these steps.
You will still need to re-export the feed each time you make a change to your products, but SellerDeck will upload the feed automatically to your 'acatalog' folder or equivalent when you ‘Publish to Web’.
Next, you will need to set up a Google Account if you do not already have one. This is free to do, and you can find the registration page by searching on Google for 'Google Account'. If you are using Google Adwords or Google Mail then you have a Google Account already, and you can log into it using the same username and password.
To register your feed, do the following.
You will still need to export your feed manually when you make changes, but SellerDeck will then upload it and Google will regularly spider it automatically.
SellerDeck 2016 v16.01 onwards
From version v16.01 onwards, there is no longer an 'Export File' field as the software now configures this automatically.
The software will automatically create an XML file called 'google-products.xml' and upload this to the site root. If your product feed file is called anything different within your Google account you will need to change this.
Firstly, you need to generate your Google Product Feed and have it uploaded to your web site. To do this, follow these steps.
- Select 'Export Google Product Search Data Feed' from the 'Marketing' menu.
- Click 'Browse', make sure your Site folder is selected, and enter a File name such as 'GoogleProducts'.
- Click 'Save' and then 'OK'. This generates the feed.
- Now select 'Additional Files' from the 'Design' menu.
- Click 'Add', click on the file you just saved, and click 'Open'.
- Click 'OK'.
- Click ‘Publish to Web’ in the SellerDeck toolbar
You will still need to re-export the feed each time you make a change to your products, but SellerDeck will upload the feed automatically to your 'acatalog' folder or equivalent when you ‘Publish to Web’.
Next, you will need to set up a Google Account if you do not already have one. This is free to do, and you can find the registration page by searching on Google for 'Google Account'. If you are using Google Adwords or Google Mail then you have a Google Account already, and you can log into it using the same username and password.
To register your feed, do the following.
You will still need to export your feed manually when you make changes, but SellerDeck will then upload it and Google will regularly spider it automatically.
- Log in to your Google Account and click on 'Merchant Center' in the 'My products' list.
- Click on 'Data feeds' in the left-hand sidebar, the click the 'New Data Feed' button.
- Select your Country
- Enter the Date feed file name, eg ‘GoogleProducts.txt’
- Click ‘Save Changes’
- In the ‘Data feeds’ table, click ‘Create schedule’ in the ‘Upload’ column for your feed
- Under the heading "Schedule for GoogleProducts.txt:" select the frequency with which you want Google to check your feed. This should be based on how often you make changes to your product range.
- In "Feed URL" enter the full URL of your file in the following format:
http://yoururl.com/acatalog/GoogleProducts.txt
Where 'http://yoururl.com' is your web site address and 'GoogleProducts.txt’ is the name of the feed you just created. (If you have renamed your 'acatalog' folder, use the substitute name here as well). - Click 'Schedule'.
Please note the exact steps are correct at the time of writing, but Google may change them at any time without notifying SellerDeck. Click the ‘Help’ link in your Merchant Centre account for more information.
SellerDeck 2016 v16.01 onwards
From version v16.01 onwards, there is no longer an 'Export File' field as the software now configures this automatically.
The software will automatically create an XML file called 'google-products.xml' and upload this to the site root. If your product feed file is called anything different within your Google account you will need to change this.