Google Product Search Feeder II [Support Thread]

[lat9]

I'm not a user of the Google Merchant Center's hosted console, so can't help there. If the data's being sent but Google isn't happy, I'll suggest doing a web-search for the symptom. If you've run across it, it's likely that someone else has too.

[bumba000]

Ok. So the issue is resolved. A user in the google merchant center forum caught this....

shipping weight is not a sub attribute of shipping.

Instead of:
<g:shipping>
<g:country>US</g:country>
<grice>9.95 USD</grice>
<g:shipping_weight>

it should be:
<g:shipping>
<g:country>US</g:country>
<grice>9.95 USD</grice>
</g:shipping>
<g:shipping_weight>3 lb</g:shipping_weight>


So I move a line in the classes/gpsFeedGenerator.php


Moved
if (GPSF_WEIGHT === 'true' && $product['products_weight'] > 0) {
$this->xmlWriter->writeElement('g:shipping_weight', $product['products_weight'] . ' ' . GPSF_UNITS);
}

to just after
$this->xmlWriter->endElement(); //- END g:shipping

All product that had been "missing shipping weight" are now no longer missing shipping weight.

Thank you,
John

[lat9]

Ok. So the issue is resolved. A user in the google merchant center forum caught this....

shipping weight is not a sub attribute of shipping.

Instead of:
<g:shipping>
<g:country>US</g:country>
<grice>9.95 USD</grice>
<g:shipping_weight>

it should be:
<g:shipping>
<g:country>US</g:country>
<grice>9.95 USD</grice>
</g:shipping>
<g:shipping_weight>3 lb</g:shipping_weight>


So I move a line in the classes/gpsFeedGenerator.php


Moved
if (GPSF_WEIGHT === 'true' && $product['products_weight'] > 0) {
$this->xmlWriter->writeElement('g:shipping_weight', $product['products_weight'] . ' ' . GPSF_UNITS);
}

to just after
$this->xmlWriter->endElement(); //- END g:shipping

All product that had been "missing shipping weight" are now no longer missing shipping weight.

Thank you,
John

Thanks for the investigation and correction; I'll get that fixed in v1.0.5. Here's the GitHub issue for tracking: https://github.com/lat9/gpsf/issues/46

[bumba000]

Hey Lat9,
No problem. I really didn't want anything to do with uploading products to google but ... I had been doing some price checking in google serps and found they have all of our products (organic results) with a 7-day return period. So I set out on a mission to correct this and found the only way is to updated shipping and returns in merchant center even if you don't already have a merchant center account. But the only way to change your sites return policy is to have a product feed loaded there.

If you think something else is causing the 7-day return period showing in organic google serps please let me know. I have no structured data.. nothing other than now the merchant upload.

Thanks again,
John

[bumba000]

Just to follow up. Rearranging a bit of code worked to resolve the "missing shipping weight" issue, and setting shipping and return policy in google merchant center did reflect in the organic serps.

[HeathenMagic]

I finally managed to get to zencart 2.10 , I noticed out of 6500 items, it gives a 500 error but no log in folder. I can do 3000 . I Did increase resources on server, and it reflected on the page what I had set. Though on v1.58 version it could do a full batch. As an aside, I do notice when I go store manager and clear logs, then optimise databes, it does a 500 error too. But never done that on prior versions. I thought maybe related as nobody has chimed in about it on this thread about it? I am on same server as with 1.58a. Thanks in advance.

[Shop Suey]

Sorry in advance if it seems spammy.
But what is the advantage in comparison to the successor "Merchant Center Next" for which you don't need to do anything?

No feeds, no cron jobs, no server issues - just a super easy setup at merchant center next.
Google crawls itself daily which works pretty well.

[lat9]

Sorry in advance if it seems spammy.
But what is the advantage in comparison to the successor "Merchant Center Next" for which you don't need to do anything?

No feeds, no cron jobs, no server issues - just a super easy setup at merchant center next.
Google crawls itself daily which works pretty well.

I'm not a Merchant Center user, so I've got no access to view the options of the Merchant Center Next tool.

One thing that GPSF2 provides is a means to restrict the products a site publishes to its product-search-feed.

[flappingfish]

One thing i noticed for quite some time is that Google "finds" additional products on my behalf on my merchant centre. When in merchant centre on the feeds page it shows a products uploaded by me count of a few thousand and an additional products found by Google count of around 340 items as a clearly displayed metric. Maybe they have subtly upgraded the merchant centre accounts and started auto crawling regardless?