| Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | Ronald | 7/9/10 7:52 PM | Starting in late August, product offers in the Electronics, Books, and Media categories from US merchants may not appear in Product Search if your data feed does not include the necessary unique product identifiers, such as MPN, Brand, GTIN/UPC/EAN o |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | SadieBellsBooks | 7/11/10 4:38 AM | Questions: What if you are selling a set of multiple books? Do you put all ISBN numbers in?What about books like community/church cookbooks which may have been published after 1970 but have no isbn number?Do we need to also add the year attribute, |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | bluepennylady | 7/13/10 8:04 PM | bumping Wally's bump to the front. Judy bluepennylady |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | SadieBellsBooks | 7/15/10 3:15 AM | Thanks Judy and Wally for the bumps |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | xonatek | 7/16/10 10:53 PM | We manage dozens of accounts for companies that sell electronic components. They all fall under the "Electronics" category, but none of them actually have unique identifiers, since they aren't generic, end-consumer products. How will these types of p |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | Vistaview | 7/18/10 2:51 AM | Using UPC is a good idea, but only in theory. Most of the products that I sell simply do not have a UPC code. The manufacturers are not interested in obtaining the UPC code, so as a merchant there is not much that I can do about it. The MPN is us |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ilhaverde | 7/20/10 11:45 AM | I installed the latest googlebase module on my zencart. Now I am able to include an isbn in my xml. The problem is google is not recognizing it as an isbn number. I'm getting the warning Invalid UPC value (12 warnings) Please make sure the value is a |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ilhaverde | 7/20/10 11:54 AM | wwwallyh you said "Any number used is a plus, as long as it is accurate... never make one up or use one you cannot confirm." What about this scenerio. I have a zen cart and use easy populate to upload new listings or to revise existing listings. On |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ilhaverde | 7/20/10 1:16 PM | ""A book title is neither a model number nor manufacturer"" well, I recognize that. What about the problem with google not recognizing the isbn number? Google wants us to add isbn numbers. I did that. Now it's being recognized as an invalid UPC. |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ilhaverde | 7/20/10 3:35 PM | ok, thanks for answering. For the isbn I gave as an example, my book has only the 10 digit isbn. I have a good many books that have only a 10 digit isbn. I don't think it would be realistic to be expected to research to see if there is also a counte |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ilhaverde | 7/21/10 6:58 AM | Ok, I tested with a 13 digit isbn and the error shows as, Your item list contains invalid product identifiers. Please submit valid identifiers. The data quality report shows the isbn as, gtin: 9781579651886 |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ilhaverde | 7/21/10 8:23 AM | yes it is a cookbook LOL There are lots of folks really concerned about these isbn and upc identifiers and how this is going to affect their listings come August. Are our efforts to get with googles program a wasted effort? Is there something we are |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | Ronald | 7/29/10 3:02 AM | Hello Google Merchant Center users, Answers to some of the questions asked above: 1. If you are selling a set of books, please include the ISBN for the set rather than books in the set. 2. If you do not have a valid unique product identifier for your |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | SadieBellsBooks | 7/30/10 3:03 AM | Thank you Ronald Since many of us have our items submitted by marketplaces, can you explain how we will request exemptions? Also, regarding "sets" of books - many times a seller may sell, for example: 2 Betty Crocker Cookbooks as a "set" - in that c |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | Ronald | 8/11/10 1:41 AM | Sorry for the delay in response. We are still working on the exemption feature for individual accounts and marketplaces. For custom bundles where there is no valid unique product identifier, you may apply for exemption. |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 1:24 PM | I have added MPN and UPC where available. However, I have noticed that even if we have included the proper UPC and MPN, only a handful of retailers are being included in many common search results. For instance.... http://www.google.com/products?q=j |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 1:46 PM | These are not new products. My company has been carrying these items for months and had previously been included in the search results for the example given above. Just recently, this month to be exact, we are now finding our company is excluded from |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 1:57 PM | Our last data feed had only 3 errors or so for the UPC format; but those were not for Jo Jo Designs products. We use the manufacturers MPN and the UPC where available. Our website is http://www.jujubeaneboutique.com Thank you for the help |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 2:14 PM | Of course there is no guarantee; but you certainly increase the odds when you put a company name in your search. It's the organic search that doesn't include a retailer name that I am most interested in. That is how someone will search for a product. |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 3:28 PM | I mean "organic" in the sense of how someone would most likely search for a product in Google's product search. |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 5:40 PM | I am sorry to beleaguer the issue; but since we carry Jo Jo Designs bedding, shouldn't we be surfacing in the product search results for this item? http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=butterfly+bedding+by+JoJo+Designs&show=dd&sa= |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | ju ju beane | 8/19/10 6:07 PM | My concern is really based on the fact that I have added UPC numbers to these products and still we have sank in the results despite making the effort to do so when it wasn't yet required for this product category. It appears that having a UPC or MPN |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | mghammell | 8/21/10 1:25 AM | Stupid question maybe. Is this upc mpn requirement tied in- in any way with the normal search functions? Virtually no one on ebay has had any new customers through Google search for the entire month so far. MY items(gemstones-have none of these type |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | mghammell | 8/21/10 12:04 PM | thanks wwwallye-probably true i saw the catagories--but then again- 490 of 493 of my datafeed items now show up as not unique or duplicate items-starting as of about 4 days ago. Just because something is supposed to work one way does not mean it will |
| Re: Upcoming changes to Google Merchant Center to improve the Product Search experience | andyshea77 | 8/23/10 12:09 AM | Hi, If my product only has ASIN code instead of UPC, should I submit that or just leave it blank? Thank you Andy |
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