Posts under ‘Google Base’

We’ve always emphasized the importance of submitting high-quality product feeds to Google Product Search. This means submitting accurate, up-to-date product information in the form of attributes, as well as abiding by best practices for formatting these attributes. Doing so goes a long way toward helping shoppers find your items more easily.
Today, we’re pleased to announce [...]

We’ve received some feedback from Google Product Search merchants asking for more direction on which values to include for the product_type attribute. We listened to your feedback, and today we’re unveiling our new categorization system that you can use for describing the product type of your items. Product_type is an optional attribute that you can [...]

Tax and shipping estimation is one of the features most commonly asked for by shoppers on Google Product Search. Today, I’m happy to announce that you can now submit tax and shipping information for your products via your Google Base account. We’ll soon be displaying this information on Google Product Search to provide buyers with [...]

For many of you the fourth quarter is the busiest and biggest season, and in this economy analytics are more important than ever. With holiday traffic starting in November and peaking in early-December, now is the time to make sure your site is in the best shape to maximize holiday traffic and revenue.

To help you [...]

We understand it can be time-consuming for merchants to prepare their product feeds for multiple shopping engines, each with their own formats and standards. That’s why we’re introducing a new uploading option that enables merchants to submit information to Google Product Search using existing data feeds they’ve prepared for other shopping engines.
You can take advantage [...]

Google Base now offers more feedback on the performance of your items. Log in to your Google Base account and click on the new “Performance” tab.
You’ll find information on how many items you have uploaded and how many of the items are active. You can also see how many clicks your items received on Google [...]

Posted by Gilbert Dietrich, German Google Base Team
Many of you have been asking for a way to easily upload and publish items for different countries to Google Base from the comfort of your account. We listened to your feedback and have created an international dashboard within your Google Base account, which lets you select different target countries for [...]

Posted by Jessica Ng, Product Marketing Manager
If you’re a Google Product Search provider, you’ve always known that we classify our attributes into three categories: “required,” “recommended,” and “optional.” We’ve recently updated the list of attributes in each category to make it easier for providers to submit their product information and prioritize the attributes relevant to [...]

Posted by Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager
To keep your items in Base current, you should send us a new data feed as often as your item information changes. The great news is that you don’t have to send us your file manually anymore. Now Google Base can download your data feed from your website. Here’s how [...]