Google Product Search is a product search engine run by Google. It is a search engine dedicated to products which merchants pay a cost per action
(CPA) whenever the customer clicks on one of their listings.
+FEED
button to add a new feed.Scheduled Fetches
"./feeds/googlebase.xml
, so enter your full StoreFront url to that file. https://demo.ultracartstore.com/feeds/googlebase.xml
.Manage your individual items via the Google Product Search Tab of the Item Editor.
The last step of the integration process will be the configuration of the items. You must have all items in your store configured with all of the required fields. These will have [required] to the right of the field. See the following for more details: Google Product Search Tab |
To activate Google Product Search within UltraCart, navigate to:
Configuration → External Integrations → Google Product Search |
The first step is to set the Feed Schedule to Daily. The next step is to choose the title format. There are four different options for the title format. The correct option for your feed will depend upon the product data.
For example if customers commonly search by SKU for products such as HBZ4900
then you would want to select "Description + Item Id
". Because there is a limit to the title length in the feed file, UltraCart will shorten the description to add the item id if necessary.
Once you've chosen feed schedule and title format, click Save
.
The StoreFront system will place a copy of the XML file into the /feeds/ directory. Below is a screen shot of the file on the StoreFront file manager.
This is the URL mentioned above in the steps to create a feed within Google Merchant Center. In this example the StoreFront is "store.sodaparts.com", the directory is "/feeds/" and the file is "googlebase.xml". So the full URL that you would register with Google would be:
https://store.sodaparts.com/feeds/googlebase.xml |
After enabling the integration, the "Google Product Search" tab will appear in item editor. See the following for more details regarding the configuration of the Google Product Search tab in the item editor.
Answer: UltraCart process the feed files daily at 5AM EST at which point Google polls for and processes the files. At the bottom of the page there is an update now which will trigger the feed to rebuild within a few minutes.
Complete list of Google Categories
https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112 (Google Product Search Data Specification)
https://www.storegrowers.com/google-shopping-feed/ (how to fix your google product feed)