How do I get my products in Google Product Search?
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December 04, 2008 |
Google Product Search is a shopping database that puts your products in front of a huge worldwide audience. By following these directions to create a product feed and a Google Base FTP account you will be able to submit your products to Google Product Search from within your Flying Cart Headquarters. We will also submit your products automatically every 30 days so they never expire from Google. Here’s how to do it.
1. Log in to your Flying Cart Headquarters and navigate to Marketing > Advanced Tools. Find your “Product Feed Filename” and write it down.
2. Go to Google Base and sign in with your Google account. Your Gmail email address will work. If you don’t have a Google account they will take you through the necessary steps for you to sign up for one. During the sign up process you will need to specify your location, agree to the Google Base Terms of Service, and enter in your account info (Business Name, Address, eMail, etc.)
3. List your website URL in the settings. If you use a custom domain enter in your custom domain (not your .flyingcart.com domain).
4. Click on “Data feeds” and then the “New Data Feed” button.
5. Pick your Target Country, select your data feed type as “Googlebase”, and enter in your product feed file name (the one your wrote down in step 1).
6. Next you will need to create a Google FTP Account. Click on “Settings” and then “FTP account”.
7. Create a FTP username and password. Write it down. Wait several hours for Google to activate your account. (Google says that it takes 15 minutes, but we have noticed that it usually takes 8 hours)
8. Log in to your Flying Cart Headquarters. Go to Marketing > Advanced Tools. Enter in the Google FTP username and password that you created in the previous step. Hit “Save Settings”.
9. You are now ready to submit your products. Click “Submit Products to Google”.
3 Responses to “How do I get my products in Google Product Search?”
May 7th, 2009 said: 3:03 pm
Thanks, that helped alot!
October 26th, 2009 said: 10:15 pm
I have done every step as you list. However, all my items are “published and searchable soon” . This status is more than 24 hours.
What should I do?
October 26th, 2009 said: 10:17 pm
I would wait another 24 hours and then contact Google if its still not up.
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