Comments on: What is Google Base/Merchant Center?

By: GoTo

GoTo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:08:52 +0000

Hi Barbara--glad you found the answers! For anyone elso who needs to find them: Google Base FAQ 1: I’ve set up Google Base, now what? Google Base FAQ 2: My feed uploaded and it says items were inserted! Google Base FAQ 3: My Google Base feed processed but shows a No items inserted message!

By: Barbara Ivy

Barbara Ivy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:37:40 +0000

Disregard my questions, please…..I found the FAQ that answered them for me!!

By: Barbara Ivy

Barbara Ivy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:32:58 +0000

Also, GoTo, I’m guessing there is a lag time between the inserting and posting/publishing while the file is evaluated? My googlebase says that 28 of 28 items were inserted, however I note that nothing has been published

By: Barbara Ivy

Barbara Ivy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:09:46 +0000

Back again! I followed your instructions for the manual upload and my 28 items processed!!! Hooray for a small success which feels like a huge one to this non-techie. Thanks for this help. I do have a question regarding a Feed Level Message I received regarding the download:

It says “Missing recommended attribute: weight. We recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.”

What does this mean and is this something I can address?

By: GoTo

GoTo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:33:16 +0000

I’d go with “Gemstones and Silver” –it’s not necessary to mention it is an Etsy shop there (unless you want to). Folks will know it when they click your items and are taken to your shop on Etsy.

By: Barbara Ivy

Barbara Ivy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:57:35 +0000

GoTo,

While waiting, I’ve just looked again at everything I entered a few days ago per your tutorial and am wondering if I made a mistake with my Display Name – I entered “Gemstones and silver” because that is the name of my etsy shop. And after Description, I entered “Gemstones and Silver jewelry store on etsy”. Are these entries correct?

By: GoTo

GoTo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:11:40 +0000

Barbara--Google is having slow down issues for scheduled feeds. See this post for info on that and a way to get your items in while we wait for Google to fix it: Google Base: Slow Processing & Uploading

By: Barbara Ivy

Barbara Ivy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:13:20 +0000

Here I am at day 3 or 4 (I’ve lost track) Absolutely nothing is happening. Any suggestions GoTo??

By: GoTo

GoTo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:02:11 +0000

Heather--I've replied in the Etsy forum help thread (since you also asked there): http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6067830&page=160

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:40:43 +0000

GoTo, I followed your instructions without fail it worked. But when it went to auto insert the second time it came back with this error message. Now, I’m all kinds of confused. Do you know anything about fixing this?

Feed status summary

No items inserted – Processed on Jun 28, 2009 9:51 am PDT

Detected file format: XML
Feed Level Messages
Error: XML formatting error
Our system encountered an error when processing your data feed.
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Error: Mismatched XML tag.
Your data feed contains a pair of opening/closing XML tags that don’t match.
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Examples:
Item Nr. Line Nr.
19

I would sure appreciate any help I can get I’m anxious to get back on board.