Comments on: Adding Magento products to Google Base

By: MageMagic

MageMagic — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:54:15 +0000

I have this error after submitting a product to Google Content. “No products were added to Google Content.” I am using Magento 1.6.0. Any suggestion how to do that?

By: Dolendro

Dolendro — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:51:42 +0000

Google Base is not active by default in Magento version 1.6.1.0. So i need to install this http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Magento+Core/extension/6887/mage_googleshopping. So, it will be better if you explain for this google shopping. And one thing is it possible to active Google Base in the local pc.

By: Jim Dobree

Jim Dobree — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:04:00 +0000

…..and then times out when i select Add Attribute Mapping.

By: Jim Dobree

Jim Dobree — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:16:32 +0000

Following the instructions, when i get to the Google Base > Manage attributes there is ‘No records found’

Can anyone help please?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:32:17 +0000

I sorted the taxonomy issue in two steps

1. by adding the required taxonomy classes to

magento/app/code/core/mage/googleshopping/helper/Category.php

so that they appear in the dropdown

2. creating a new attribute set for each new taxonomy entry.. since all products with the same attribute set are forced to have the same taxonomy entry in this extension..

By: Rain

Rain — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:24:59 +0000

Hi, I wonder why I only see 2 items when I click “view all products” when managing items for googlebase. How do I show all my products once again so I can synchronize to googlebase?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:09:09 +0000

We use gomage extension to generate feeds.
It’s careful design makes it both easy to use and very flexible.
I recommend the extension to anybody who wants to export their products as feeds – whether it is for Google Base/Merchant, Bing Shopping, Yahoo, etc.

Hope this helps

By: Shoetopia

Shoetopia — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:25:38 +0000

@Vader,

Definitely did a full backup before I installed it, as I couldn’t jeopardize anything happening to my subscribers, etc. So I had a full restore ready, but my host took a while to get it all settled correctly for me.

The thing that bothered me the most about the extension is that I could not add the categories and such as required by Google now for Apparel/Shoes… so it was a complete waste of time. I tried and tried, but couldn’t get it.

Does this extension modify Magento core files? I don’t think I can stomach trying it again due to the category issue (taxonomy), but I’m definitely in need of something to fix the issue (extremely low budget!).

By: Vader7

Vader7 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:28:52 +0000

@Shoetopia…

You should ALWAYS backup your entire website including databases before you do any integrations.

I would not even attempt this integration for versions before 1.6.

By: gloopy

gloopy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:01:06 +0000

please forget my last post, for anyone else having that problem, in the config i added my user name and password as the ftp details in merchant centre instead of my email and password oooops

By: gloopy

gloopy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:19:15 +0000

vader7 i have installed this and now get

The product “iPhone 4S Screen replacement UK” hasn’t been added to Google Content.
No products were added to Google Content

I have added the products mapping correctly and added gmcf_condition in the label options and added everything i should i have also googled the problem and nothing comes up. Surely its not just me

By: Shoetopia

Shoetopia — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:37:39 +0000

That extension royally screwed my site and it took 16 hours and help from my hosting to restore my backup… NOT recommended!

Also, I don’t think taxonomy was enabled on there. Was just a bunch of issues… installed and wanted it off and after the uninstall it just totally destroyed my site.

By: gloopy

gloopy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:27:15 +0000

Thanks Vader7 for the quick reply, will do this now .

By: Vader7

Vader7 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:04:33 +0000

Please direct your attention to the new CONTENT API integration… Install this into your new 1.6. Very simple.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/marketing/advertising-marketing/google-content-api-for-shopping.html

By: gloopy

gloopy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:20:15 +0000

Hi all am i missing something ?? when i go to admin>config>google api it is not in there. I have magento 1.6 installed

By: Hans Kuijpers

Hans Kuijpers — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:43 +0000

@Vader7 -> thank you for this excellent update. I would like you to read the comment of Mau 16-08-2011 at 22:19
[quote]http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Magento%20Core/extension/6887/mage_googleshopping

Starting this year, Google has launched new Shopping APIs that will replace Google Base Data API for shopping use cases.[/quote]

By: Dennis - Fancy Fiber Studios

Dennis - Fancy Fiber Studios — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:34:54 +0000

@Vader7 -> True Google BASE is phased out. However, Merchant Center Data Feeds are NOT phased out.

http://www.google.com/merchants

By: Vader7

Vader7 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:07:01 +0000

This is OLD! Google BASE is PHASED OUT!

By: Dennis - Fancy Fiber Studios

Dennis - Fancy Fiber Studios — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:27:46 +0000

@Hans -> Thanks for the heads up. Won’t break my module if it goes away though. I just happened to break the core module and put code in my module to repair the damage I caused.

Also, thanks for this blog! I referred to several of the articles here as I was writing this module. Great stuff!

By: Hans Kuijpers

Hans Kuijpers — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:55:07 +0000

@Dennis -> excellent job… but… be aware that “The Find Feed” will be obsolete soon.