SO Frustrated with Google Base / Froogle

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=thentavius link=topic=8911.msg48354#msg48354 date=1175293570]
They ARE showing up in Google Base, but not Froogle. Do I still have to do a separate Froogle feed these days?
[/quote]

No, everything goes to Base.

Upload them again if they're not showing up in Froogle. They should appear in both Base and Froogle.

Hmm, your 60 items are showing up on a site:pp.com search at Base but when I click on "see products" there are 0 which would explain why Froogle also has 0.  Check your feed file to make sure you specified products as the item type.
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Products

Results 1 - 10 of about 308,514,008

308 million products in Base :blinkie:

[thentavius]

What is the column header? item_type?

[mandy]

[quote author=thentavius link=topic=8911.msg48367#msg48367 date=1175316275]
What is the column header? item_type?
[/quote]

product_type
http://base.google.com/base/products.html

[FiberGuy]

thentavius,

If you're still having problems, do drop me a line.  I seemed to get ours to go through without much additional effort. 

Here are the atributes with their values (when applicable) that I used.  Order shouldn't matter.

link
title
description
price
image_link
id (SKU)
location (this was a new one for me... added our company's physical address in this format:  Company X, 220 Rugburn Ave, Hotpants, FL 60606)
brand - I used our web address: dewittco.com
condition - I used "used" for everything, but the format must be one of: new, used, or refurbished
expiration_date - in this format: 4/30/2007 (must be no more than 30 days from posting)
product_type - I used "antiques" for everything
currency - USD
payment_accepted - Check, Visa, MasterCard, AmericanExpress, PayPal
quantity
language - eng

I'd recommend doing away with every attribute you don't need that isn't required.  I dumped the following from the x-cart spreadsheet:

label
payment_notes
weight

Let me know if I can be of more help!

Cheers... and good luck!

(It took about 10 minutes to edit the x-cart spreadsheet, but much longer than the advertised "hour" for G to process it.)

***EDIT***
It should be noted that our products do not appear on Froogle yet, but are listed on Base.

[FiberGuy]

***UPDATE***

Froogle STILL doesn't list any of our products that were uploaded to G Base yet...

No idea why...

[amy]

Is anyone on the X-cart forum having the same problem?

[FiberGuy]

[quote author=amy link=topic=8911.msg48693#msg48693 date=1175793084]
Is anyone on the X-cart forum having the same problem?
[/quote]

I haven't read anything like that, Amy.  I honestly don't think it's an x-cart issue (for me, anyhow... I'm not certain what errors thentavius is getting.).  The attribs. and values for our feed was nearly identical to the one I used before...

...EXCEPT!!....

The location attrib.  I stumbled upon a tidbit of info in the Google Base help files that specifically mention this attribute, and that when it is included, your products will only appear in Froogle Local.

http://base.google.com/support/bin/stati...shooter.cs&problem=b3a9d455157bdc1b&selected=4eda7aebfa394ae9&ctx=items_neverFroogle_45915

Funny, the only way I found this was after clicking on "contact us".

I uploaded a new feed this morning, I'll report how it goes.  As of right now, they're in "published - searchable soon" mode.

We'll see, but I'm quite certain this is the reason they were not appearing in Froogle.

[FiberGuy]

Removing the "location" attribute did it... Items are now beginning to appear in Froogle.  Yeehaw.. 

[bargainbloodhound]