Google Base (aka Google Product Search) changes

Hi all,

A few of you have noted that you could no longer submit your Google Base feeds into your Google merchant account. That’s because Google recently changed their submission process. A url must now be ‘claimed’ by a single account, and then all future listings submissions must come from that single account. Thus, I’ve recoded the system and *all* active HC listings are now submitted to the Google Product search database on a daily basis. Unfortunately, that leaves you no way to check on the status of your listings (impressions / clicks). If Google comes up with a way for me to download that information into a file or database, I’ll work that in to make it viewable to you. In the meantime, I can tell you that we currently have 28,868 items listed, and that we’ve had up to 160 clicks and 700 impressions per day.

Thanks everyone!

8 Replies to “Google Base (aka Google Product Search) changes”

  1. Is there a way to opt out of this, like Etsy, and other sites provide? I submit my products via my main website, to my own account. Google doesn’t like it when the same products are submitted more than once.
    Thanks!

  2. Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, if you would like your items to be excluded, please send a link to your store to support [at] hyenacart.com and we’ll get it taken care of 🙂

  3. Oh, good point, mine are submitted elsewhere as well. I would not have thought of that. Thanks for keeping HC moving with the times!

  4. I seldom leave responses, however after reading a bunch of remarks on HC Blog » Blog Archive » Google Base (aka Google Product Search) changes. I do have a few questions for you if you tend not to mind. Could it be just me or do some of the responses appear like they are written by brain dead visitors? 😛 And, if you are writing at other online social sites, I would like to follow you. Would you make a list of all of your social community pages like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?

  5. Hey! This is my 1st comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say I really enjoy reading through your blog posts. Can you suggest any other blogs/websites/forums that cover the same topics? Thanks a lot!

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