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”.

Q: What will people see when they use Google to search for things that I am selling?

A: Your Products in Google Product Search Results

Your Products in Google Search Results

Q: When people click on the products, will they go to the Flying Cart site or my store site?

A: They will go to the product page on your store site.

Q: I submitted my products. Why aren’t they showing up on Google Product Search?

A: Google has a specific set of rules for determining if submitted products are accepted into their system. If your products are not showing up, it may be that they were rejected by Google. Read more about this.

Now you can submit all your products to Google Product Search in ONE CLICK!

It really can’t get any easier