So what's this going on with Googlebase/froogle?

[Nick Walker]

Just recently built up a site in V8, went live a little while ago (woohoo!) and started looking at some nifty options like the inbuilt froogle feed.

So i exported, uploaded through froogle (which turned to googlebase the next day) and was happy to see after 24 h, when searching for our products, it was there! Then, 2 days later...it vanished. Reuploaded, 24h they are back! 2 days again..gone. This time i get an email from the googlebase team telling me that there were errors within the feed and they have been removed pending i correct them.

Thank you for submitting a bulk upload to Google Base. We've reviewed your
bulk upload and need you to make changes. Your bulk upload has been
disapproved due to the reason(s) listed below.

Issues:

1. Include additional required attributes
2. Non-working URLs

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1. Include additional required attributes: We noticed that you have not
included some of the required attributes in your "Products" bulk upload.
The more information you provide, the better we will be able to match your
items to users' queries. For a list of required attributes, please visit
the following link:

http://base.google.co.uk/base/help/products.html

2. Non-working URLs: It seems that the URLs in your bulk upload aren't
working correctly. For example, the URL for the item titled "MIDAS SIENA
320 TOURING PACK" doesn't work:

http://www.lmcaudio.co.uk/acatalog/O..._mixers_2.html


Please double check to ensure that all of your URLs are functional, or
Google users won't be able to view your items.

Now, i am not sure on a few things here, first how Actinic generated a URL that doesn't exsist at all and no changes have been made to that section/product for at least a month now, and the Froogle feed was exported last week.

Secondly, the 'products' section (and going to the link provided) doesn't actually tell me what i personally am missing. Understandably, i told googlebase to register the upload as "products" which it seemed happy with, and some of the 'required' fields of googlebase seem to differ depending on what you upload it as.

So overall, i am asking if anyone would be so kind to point out what i am doing wrong here!

Thanks!

[Jan]

It looks as if you have changed your catalog name from 'online catalog' to 'LMC_Web_catalogue', if you do not hardcode your page names in the section details they are generated and the catalog name is used for part of the name.

Regards,

[Nick Walker]

It looks as if you have changed your catalog name from 'online catalog' to 'LMC_Web_catalogue', if you do not hardcode your page names in the section details they are generated and the catalog name is used for part of the name.

Regards,

Thanks Jan, makes sense for the incorrect URL. What about the missing product fields? I can't imagine that has anything to do with a changed catalog name.

[Jan]

They have been introduced recently be Google, they are not included in the Actinic feed.

Regards,

[Nick Walker]

Hmm, i see. Thanks Jan, hopefully at some point the Actinic feed will be updated to include the neccessary fields. In the meantime i guess i suck it up and see about including them myself.

[Jan]

We sell feeds for Actinic at our plugin shop that support the new google base product options - just in case you are interested.

Regards,

[Derekl]

Hi Jan,

Ref your response to Nick walker. Can you about the feed please. Also I have links to duplicate sites etc on my site. would it work? Would it help if I sent you a snapshot of my site so that you can let me know before I buy your tool please.

Thanks very much

[Duncan Rounding]

there's a 30 day trial of it here:
http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Froogle_Mash.html

[Derekl]

Thanks,
Is it compatible with version 8.5 and does it take over all the attributes etc.

Thanks again

[pinbrook]

I expect it does, why don't you download the free 30 day trial and test it out

[Derekl]

A good Plan ;-)

[Derekl]

Google Base

Hi,

I have now uploaded using the Mole end Product and it worked. However I notice in the XML file that there is a field called "brand" It is empty in my upload. How can I get information in here? Also is there a way to change the description of the product to add the manufacturers name in there.

One last question please. How do i get myself up the rankings

Thanks very much

[Duncan Rounding]

...How do i get myself up the rankings...

The 64 million dollar question!!!

Get a BIG mug of coffee and search the forum for SEO related phrases and have a good weekend read.

[Jan]

However I notice in the XML file that there is a field called "brand" It is empty in my upload. How can I get information in here? Also is there a way to change the description of the product to add the manufacturers name in there.

You can set these up on the Googlebase options page, this knowledgebase article on our support site gives you more details :

http://moleend.helpserve.com/index.p...kbarticleid=63

Regards,

[pinbrook]

it is possible to get mole-end output in csv, so we can edit in brand and product type before converting to XML?