Google Base submission of your HC items :)
Hi everyone,
I’ve just installed a script which allows you to submit your listings to Google Base. For those of you who don’t know, Google Base is a searchable database for product listings on the internet. From their website, “Simply describe your items on Base to make them as easy as possible for people to find when they search.” I’ve put together an HC Google Base tutorial here: http://hyenacart.com/googlebase_tut.php .
So get out there and submit your listing to Google Base, already, it’s free, it’s pretty easy, and it will hopefully bring in new traffic to your store.
Have fun!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Way to go Karen! I’ve been excited for this change, thank you!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Wow what an awesome addition! Can’t wait to try it out!
October 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
stupid question…how do we make the xml file that we upload?
October 19th, 2008 at 12:31 am
whoops, nevermind. I found it.
Thanks Karen!
October 19th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Oops. But now I’m getting this error when I try to create the file:
“Safari can’t open the page “feed://hyenacart.com/HCmulti/admin/googlebase/google_feed_gen.php”. The error was: “The feed could not be loaded because the content is not in a known feed format.” (PubSub:2) Please choose Report Bugs to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.”
October 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hmmmm, Carolyn. Is there any way you could try from a different browser? I’m not sure I can figure out how to make this compatible with Safari.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:20 am
This is great!!! I am on the warpath now-between this and HC cards and flyers I am soo excited! Thank you Karen!! You have really been putting in the extra effort and it really shows:)
October 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I got this message: Failed Data feed upload failed. No items are live.
Any ideas anyone?
October 19th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Actually I looked into it further and this is the error:
We didn’t understand the header (first) row of your file. Please make sure you’re using valid attribute names.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I get the same error. Now what?
October 19th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Feed status details
Outcome: Data feed upload failed. No items are live. help Number of items processed: 16 Number of inserted items: 0 Uploaded at: Oct 19, 2008 6:37 pm PDT Processed at: Oct 19, 2008 6:38 pm PDT
Detected file format: XML
Errors: Error Bad data Line # We didn’t understand some of the XML formatting in your file. You may be missing a tag or have a nesting or formatting error. help 1245 We recommend including this attribute. help weight
We recommend including this attribute. help upc
We recommend including this attribute. help mpn
We recommend including this attribute. help isbn
We recommend including this attribute. help condition
We recommend including this attribute. help brand
The domain of this URL doesn’t match the domain registered on the Settings page of this account. help link:http://hyenacart.com/fishnoodles/index.php?c=53&p=83977 1098
This part repeats.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I don’t see a place on the settings page to register a domain, other than Website (optional) which I put as www.hyenacart.com/fishnoodles I hope the above post is helpful.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I got the same errors as above….
November 1st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
You rock Karen! Thank you
November 29th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I am trying this with safari too, I don’t get an error message but it creates a feed right away, it never asked me to download anything. I am going to try it on firefox and see what happens.