Google Base and other portals

[a4labels]

I cannot for the life of me get my products on Google.

In fact, I cannot get a good system for feeds at all.

I am live on Kelkoo, Le guide and Ciao (soon to be the same) and have recently ditched Shopping.com as was getting a number of suspect clicks.

Does anyone know of a good system that makes it easy to keep these beasts updated?

I am using epages ecommerce platform via 123 reg. It does have an auto export option, but never works as I do not use some of the preferred default settings, like a particular shipping method and gross price.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

if you can export it to a spreadsheet, then you can manually alter the columns that are wrong and submit it.

 

[Steve2507]

We were having the same problem and I tested loads of feed creators.

In the end I opted for the best one on the market - a self built one.

I set up an asp page which will create the various feeds for us and the beauty is if things changes and columns need to be added or removed it can be done in minutes.

I don't know what system epages uses but I expect you would be able to something similar.

 

[paretowasright]

I also self created after the field/additional info changes last year.
I then just get the end dates bulk altered in excel each month and resubmit...simples

 

[gemd89]

I use magneticone with oscommerce and works brilliantly and automatically

Gemma

 

[Vision2]

I cannot for the life of me get my products on Google.

In fact, I cannot get a good system for feeds at all.

I am live on Kelkoo, Le guide and Ciao (soon to be the same) and have recently ditched Shopping.com as was getting a number of suspect clicks.

Does anyone know of a good system that makes it easy to keep these beasts updated?

I am using epages ecommerce platform via 123 reg. It does have an auto export option, but never works as I do not use some of the preferred default settings, like a particular shipping method and gross price.

Google base / merchant center has requirements for the fields, condition with the values "new" and "used", check the erroring thats returning to see which errors are appearing. There will also be warnings that you should sort out at some point but not needed straight away.

 

[pricegunlabels]

Google base works wonders for us.

We use the following headers in our spreadsheet (title, description, expiration_date, image_link, link, price, product_type id, condition, shipping, brand, mpn, google_product_category, availability) before converting to a text file.

If you do go with google base remember to change the date so its the format YYYY-MM-DD in your text file (do this with a find and replace).