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Google no longer allows individuals selling from venues/marketplaces to upload their own goods to Google Merchant/Base, only site owners can upload goods.
This means that Etsy must upload your items listed on Etsy and the feed you set up for your shop can be deleted as it is no longer functional.
For more info see here:
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106 Comments
Hi there! I’m Robin Lynne (aka takenbyrobinlynne
)
Google let me know my shop name was mentioned here – so I thought I’d stop by.
Great post & very useful information here. I hope it helps a lot of sellers!
-Robin Lynne
http://www.robinlynne.org
Wow, thank you sooo much for this tutorial!
I had been failing over and over again trying to load my items but I used your ideas and finally got it!
Yippee!
and don’t forget, some words are not acceptable. Like fetishes! It will not accept the item.
great post, however i did this & i am a bit confused. i keep searching for my products & nothing comes up?
Once your datafeed is processed and approved, it takes a little while for the data to become published and searchable. See the “After the Upload” section, and the second note in the “General Info” section.
Did you also see the section at the top that says “Getting your items in Google Base is not about getting your products in the regular Google search results” and the details below it about where your items will come up?
Great info. GoTo! Thanks for putting this together and for all your help in the forums.
Thanks! I had no idea this even existed. You gave great step-by-step instructions!
Wonderful information. I like how it is so easy to follow!
Wow…
thanks so much for posting all this info.
Fabulous!
Kristy
This was fantastic…thank you very much.
-d
Thank you so much for the tutorial. I have a question. I already have a google base acct and use it to feed my products from my website. Do I need another google acct to upload my etsy products or can I have 2 separate feeds on one acct? You say “We have two Etsy shops, so we have two feeds, they are named the same as the files we downloaded”. so do you just add 2 different feeds in the one google acct? Thanks!
Your welcome!
You need one Google Base account per domain unless you change your account to a “multi-client account”. Since all Etsy shops are on the same domain, you can have several on one account, but your won website can’t be added to your account the way it currently stands.
http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=29893
We chose to set up a second account, though at the moment I can’t remember why I thought it was better for us.
Saw a link to this site on the CCCOE Flickr group. I’d tried GoogleBase a couple years ago, but didn’t stick with it … so thought I’d give it another shot now.
Thanks for the EXCELLENT instructions!!
Your welcome! Thanks for letting us know how you found it!
Thanks for the great info!
Thank you so much for this invaluable information!
It was so easy to follow – I got lost right away when trying to follow another’s instructions.
Thank you much
Oh, wow! This is so good to know! Thank you! I’m just getting my new Etsy shop up and running, and this is was really helpful.
Thanks so much! Instructions worked like a charm – very easy to understand and do. Thanks for taking the time to share with us!
Thanks for this tutorial! It really helped me.
Thank you so much for this super tutorial! It certainly made it so easy to upload my paintings! Now I shall hope for the sales!!
thank you! great tutorial, and so great to get my site onto google.
Thanks so much. This is a very easy to understand tutorial.
Thank you so much! Step by step instructions are great!!!
Thanks so much – you are very generous and your instructions made perfect sense!
actually, I just checked and it didn’t work after all – it said: “the domain of this URL doesn’t match the domain registered on the Settings page of this account.”
Did you put the correct URL in during Step 7?
Thanks so much for the tutorial! I have never understood Google Base before, but with your great tutorial I understand how to upload my items to google base!!
Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the info. I found the instructions so easy to follow. Looking forward to additional sales
Thanks so much for the fantastic help. I had tried to place my shop items in google feed one at a time and had never gotton them all in there. Now they are all there and in one simple try, thanks to your fantastic detailed step by step help. Again, Thank You!!
Once again, an excellent blogpost. Thank you so very much.
Karen
Thank you so much for making all this make sense! I followed your wonderful instructions and it all worked!!
It all made great sense and was very logical in its explanation.
Many thanks indeed!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I had no idea this even exsisted. And you made it so easy to do. I dont think I would have figured it out on my own lol. Thank you very much
Thanks SOOOOOOOOO much. I don’t think I would have ever figured all of this out without this helpful tutorial.
Thanks again!
Mel
What a great tutorial! I was suprised that it only took me one time to do this. Great work and much appreciated!
WoW! Thanks so much. Worked great, it did take like 5 hours for all my stuff to be searchable, so be patient.
I have a question tho. If I make a sale and then relist will that item no longer come up in a search? What if I just relist? Thanks
Either the sold item will come up or it will be removed–I’m not sure.
Each Etsy item has a unique id number, so relisting won’t keep it in the search results, but if it has the exact same name as the sold item there will be a link to the active listing at the top of the sold item page on Etsy, you know, if the item isn’t removed by Google when sold…
Thanks so much! Couldn’t have done it without you!
Okay, So I did a test. I relisted an item that I had seen in the google search, and guess what? It still came up, and the link worked! Horray! Another question tho (a little off topic)… When I relist does it still show up as a persons favorite if they bookmarked it? What if it sells and is then relisted? Thanks
Thank you so much! I have done this once before, but couldn’t find the instructions I used. I searched the Etsy Forums and found your very comprehensive and easy to follow instructions. You are a life saver! Again, thank you so much!
dancing tree–Did it still come up in Google’s “Shopping” results when you relisted a sold item? Google Base uploads are only for the “Shopping” search results, not regular Google searches–those are automatic as the Google bot crawls the web.
If you just renew a currently live item in your shop it keeps its hearts. If you relist a sold item it doesn’t, but they still have the heart to the sold item.
~ Admin~ Yes! It came up in the \shopping\ results when I relisted an item that didn’t sell, and also when I sold an item and relisted. However, the sold item links to the sold items page, not the new listing. ~Thanks~ D
Wow! I’ve never even heard of this before! Thanks
Thank you so much. I have my fingers crossed that it helps my sales! Thank you. You made it so easy!
Thanks for such great info.
I’m in the middle of processing right now. Your information is great and so easy to follow! Wish me luck and thank you so much!!
Thanks, I was able to follow your instructions easily. I have a questions about the RSS feed. You said you can’t use the scheduler to automatically update items with Etsy’s RSS function because it doesn’t have the item prices.
A few weeks ago I found a forum post where there were instructions on how to get a shop RSS feed with photos. I did it for my shop and it has the price of the item in it as well as images.
Here’s the link: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5913177
I’m interesting in using it to try the scheduler but after poking around in Google base I can’t seem to find it. Any ideas?
Shanna–thanks for the tip! I gave it a shot but the file failed. While the RSS function showed nicely for the page it was displayed on, it didn’t pull all the right information the right way for Google Base to use it.
As for the scheduler–it’s just above the manual upload file link for the data feed.
Thanks for checking anyway! It was worth a shot
Thank you so much for this info. I’ve been trying to figure out Google Base and basically just gave up a year ago. This is awesome.
Thanks so much! I am going to try this!
Great post. I struggled so much at first getting my items into Google Base. Finally I got it to work for my Etsy shop, still can’t get it to work for my website but I’ll worry about that another day!
thank you so much, you have no idea how much I appreciate this!!!
Thank you..I finally was able to understand what to do!!!
this was so easy to follow..you rock….seriously.
Thanks for putting this info out for others to have, it is much appreciated!
This is a lot of great information. I am going to try to get my items on Google.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Amazing information, so easy to follow. Thank you so much for taking the time to help us out with this.
Mary
MakingsByMary.etsy.com
I’ve tried without success for months to do this — thanks for such a clear tutorial! I’m going to give it another shot after dinner.
Thanks so much! I just stumbled across this in the Etsy forums, I had never heard of Google Base before. I just signed up and your instructions made it very easy. Thanks for the link to the LetsEts site too!
Thanks for the great Tutorial-I did it last night and it worked perfectly. One question-after the 30 days it says to renew-do you go all the way back and start with letsets.com?
Thanks again-GREAT!
You’re welcome!
To renew your items
This can be done before the 30 days are up too, like when you’ve added a few new items to your shop, it will extend the length of items currently in Google Base
1. Get a new download from Let’s Ets.
2. Log in to Google Base and upload the new file.
just wanted to say thanks, i kept having the upload failed. when i followed your instructions it worked. thanks.
Excellent tutorial. I did my feed upload last month with no problems, but now it’s failing no matter what I do. Is this due to Etsy’s new RSS feed announcement this morning? THANKS in advance!
~~Lisa of TinkerAndPo
Lisa–see the purple text that’s at the top of the post–hopefully Let’s Ets will update their site soon!
I received an email from googlebase:
Note that Product Search truncates display names longer than 20 characters. Does that mean I have to change all the titles of all my items sold on Etsy to only 20 characters in order to download them to googlebase. I can’t find that info on googlebase and thought you might know. I have not had this message the last three times I downloaded to googlebase. Thank you for any info on it you may have.
As far as I know that just means they will only show the first 20 characters, so make those useful!
I received an email from them myself this week–a similar message about the length of my account name. (I had our web page address and business name listed.)
Thank you so much. I will go in and change all my listed items (over 200 of them) though I am still confused.
In google search are the tags taken from the title as well as the tags within the etsy body of the product? Or just the title?
If I were searching for a stained glass item, that alone is 13 characters……not enough to describe the actual item.
If you can help me with this, it will make it easier to change my lsitings.
Thank you,
This was incredibly helpful. Thanks so much for posting this tutorial!!
-Susan
Thanks so much! this was really helpful.
This is fantastic information especially for a newbie like me selling on Etsy. Thanks so much for the easy step-by-step instruction on how to set up Let’s Ets & Google Base!!!
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. You made it very clear and easy to use. Thanks for sharing!!
Why do I get an error page when I enter my etsy ID in the text box? Because of this I can’t even fetch my items. Thanks in advance for any help.
Audrey–sometimes it’s just a glitch and you have to try again. The first time I used your id it failed, but the second time it worked.
Ellen–Let’s Ets doesn’t upload tags from your listings, just titles and descriptions (and prices and photos).
I just follow your clearly instruction for google base today.
Finally it succeed!
Thank you very much for you help.
I’m so glad I found your instructions after being frustrated with following GB directions. All your posts contain invaluable information. Most of all, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your very simple and detailed explanation! I had no issues or problems whatsoever! Keep up the good work!
Vicki
RaVena Relics
thanks for this help! I have to remember to do it every month!
You’re welcome everyone!
terryann–Have you seen the new Etsy RSS method? You can set it up to automatically update:
Etsy RSS and Google Base
Thanks you soooo much for your wonderful step by step instructions. It made it so easy for me to get my google base up and running. When I decided to start an Etsy shop I had no idea what all was involved with everything. I have found it a bit over whelming, not to mention finding out I’ve half done things when I thought I was finished. I see that I am not the only one who feels that way. Your tutorial just made my life lots easier!
Thanks so much!
Shelly
Thx so much!!
This is a great information for all of us etsians. I have one question though. Under uploads where it says schedule, do I need to edit it? and what shell I put for url of file?
Thanks for your help!
You can only use the scheduler if you have used the Etsy RSS method for your shop (not with the Let’s Ets method).
See here for how:
Etsy RSS and Google Base
It automatically updates you store content–give it a try!
This was great! Had trouble getting it set up with the Etsy instructions – this worked! Thanks for posting it
Hi,
I keep receiving an error message on the Lets Ets site – You’ve entered an invalid store name. Please try again – any idea on how to fix that? I did register for Google Base.
Thanks!
Jan–it worked fine with your Etsy name for me. (Not the whole shop address, just your Etsy ID.) Maybe it was a temporary glitch?
Have you seen the new Etsy RSS method that you can set to update automatically?
Etsy RSS and Google Base
This was very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks
This was very helpful and easy to read. Thanks!
I’ve been selling on Etsy for almost two years and i am just learning about Google Base!!
I found this awesome tutorial in Etsy Forums and just in time as I was scratching my head about how to Register my data feed! Ha;-)
Thanks so much GoTo..this is a great resource for anyone! I will refer your blog on my blog so folks can come and learn as well.
Ny
I can’t thank you enough for this FANTASTIC tutorial on how to place your shop items in Google Base in order to make them searchable on Google.
This tutorial was very helpful to me. But when I was done I got an email saying it failed because it had too many values and too many commas. Then it also had duplicates of everything and that was a problem. – Huh?! I have no idea what it is talking about. Can you help me?
Thank you for your time.
You’re welcome!
See this more recent post for fixes:
Temporary Google Base Issues–cilck here for fixes
Still have trouble after trying those? Post in the Etsy forum thread below and I’ll try to help:
Get into Google’s “Shopping” search results–use Google Base
Your instructions are wonderful, but I’m so frustrated! The first time I did this, it worked fine, but I just tried to do it again to update, following the same instructions, and it keeps saying “Failed–no items were live.” Any suggestions? I’m tearing my hair out!
Hi Whitney–see the comment above yours for the link to why that happened and the fixes.
The link it gave me for the manual upload has nothing to do with my shop–it is for a different completely unrelated website about networking, email, etc. I did the steps twice and got the same link from the upload.
Not sure what to do next.
I don’t know what page you got to, but I recommend trying the newer method linked to just above this tutorial–the “Etsy RSS and Google Base” method.
**Be sure to start from Step 1 of that tutorial as some account setting need to be changed.**
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Thanks for your help!
Hello , Thank you for all you have taught us with this site. You have helped so many of us:).
I see a notice that lets ets is having a error . I have been trying to update since 6/3/09 and google pane is just not having it. lol. Diana
LOL Diana! Have you clicked the “Temporary Google Base Issues–fixes here” link at the top of the page to fix your feed?
I was so glad to find this blog post to solve my feed problem. It was the USD that ETSY added to it that caused the problem. Million thanks!
Thank you so very much for this info. I’ve tried it and my loads are processing right now.
Thanks for all the detailed info. I tried to do this myself without Lets Ets and you – I failed and gave up to try again later.
THANK YOU
You’re welcome everyone!
SweetwaterGifts–Be sure to read the Stop–Please read first section above before trying again with Let’s Ets!
Thank you, thank you, thankful for this amazing tutorial! So easy to understand. I would have never figured it out otherwise.
Help me!! I followed your tutorial to set this up, and it worked great. Two days later, an error came up, and I don’t know how to fix it. It says my deliminater in the feed doesn’t match the specifications. I’ve gone back through your instructions and haven’t been able to fix anything or find out what’s wrong. Any ideas? If you have any idea, I would so greatly appreciate it if you shot me an e-mail.
Thank you so much!!!
Jaclyn1423.etsy.com
Jaclyn–Are you still using Let’s Ets? If so, I highly recommend switching over to the Etsy RSS method. It will update your items automatically with the scheduler.
If you want to trouble shoot the current issue, see FAQ # 3.
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