Thread: Google Unique Product IDs

Hello,

In the manual it states:

"the AspDotNetStorefront software adds Brand (what we call Manufacturers) and Manufacturer Part Numbers to the feed if that data is populated for all of your products, so as long as all of that data is filled out for your products, this requirement will be met."

I do have the manufacturer part # used in all of my products however when I executed the feed nothing worked.

Am I supposed to be changing the feed? Or have I missed something else?

Please help

By the way I have also seen this in the manual:

Setting the GoogleProductSearch.AutoGenerateUniqueIdentifiers App Config to 'true', will cause the Google Product Search Feed to add a GUID value to any Manufacturer Part Number that is left empty.

I do not have this app config. I have version 8 - is that why?

You're only going to have the 'GoogleProductSearch.AutoGenerateUniqueIdentifiers ' AppConfig if you're using the expanded Smart Google Product Search option that is sold as an addon. For the built-in feed, you just need to provide all the information detailed in the manual.

Keep in mind that Google just changed their requirements last weekend and added another ID field, separate from the ones discussed on the page you reference: http://manual.aspdotnetstorefront.co...ch-update.aspx

Hello Scott,

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I have updated the code as per the document states however now I get a XML formatting error.

My new code looks like this:

<item>
<g:id>
<xsl:value-of select="$pID"/>
</g:id>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="$ProductName" />
</title>

Should I be adding anything else?

Looks like the wrong version of that change was done.

Try using

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="productid"/>

instead of

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="$pID"/>

Perfect - your a star! Thanks Scott

This is an alternative as well:
http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com/p...commander.aspx

includes the ability to generate a GID that google is fine with, and has various other features for importing / exporting

Btw the FIND is also included as a feed (which is the same as GOOGLE)

I changed the Googlebase xml file on our site as instructed: I added the three lines of code to include a product id, loaded it to the site and Google still will not take our feed. The error from Google is as follows: Missing required attribute: id.

Has anyone else had this issue?

@Classic_Exotic

Take a look at the XML that is being generated, and make sure the <g:id> tag is in fact being inserted with a value.

To take a look at the XML file, set auto ftp to "no" on your Edit Product Feed screen (through the admin merchant dashboard) and then execute the feed. Once generated, you will be given a path to the file that has been generated.

If you aren’t sure what it should look like, go ahead and paste a little bit of the XML here on the forum (include the first couple items or so) so that I can take a look.

Classic_Exotic, we have been doing this for many of our clients over the past few days, so if you have any issues just contact Jan at jsimacek@compunix.us and we will take care of it for you.

I have done every required.. I thought. I have added the required field from this:
http://manual.aspdotnetstorefront.co...ch-update.aspx

Code:

<g:id>
<xsl:value-of select="productid"/>
</g:id>

That worked perfectly I do not receive the error from missing ID. However, now I have a whole new list of errors.

Missing required attribute: condition (12613 errors)
Please make sure you include all required attributes in your data feed.
Examples: Examples:

Item Nr. Item ID Line Nr.
4 4 1 Show Item
13 14 68 Show Item
19 21 103 Show Item
25 27 121 Show Item
32 34 142 Show Item

As well as:

Missing recommended attribute: brand (12613 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.


12613
Missing recommended attribute: shipping weight (12613 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.


12613
Missing recommended attribute: google product category (12613 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.


12613
Missing recommended attribute: product type (12613 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.


1025
Missing recommended attribute: mpn (1025 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.


215
Missing recommended attribute: image link (215 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.


121
Missing recommended attribute: description (121 warnings)
While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.

Is this something that I can fix through the code or is this something I will have to go through each product and make them more product feed friendly. I wouldn't think that every single one of them (12,613 products) would have an error.

We are running on 8.0.1.2 any advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance

I will start a new thread.