Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google base'

Google announced last week that they will be expanding their test of the commission based product ads they started testing in June. Over the weekend, many started noticing the new type of ads in the Google search results. A WebmasterWorld...

Posted on November 16, 2009 8:03 AM

Ronald from the Google Merchant Center (Base) team reported in a Google Merchant Center Help thread that there is a known issue with FTP uploads. Specifically, if you are uploading new data feeds via FTP, the data won't show up...

Posted on November 4, 2009 9:01 AM

Those trying to submit their product feeds to Google Base or Merchant Center may be running into errors. Ronald from the Google Merchant Center team has confirmed a bug that Google's engineers are working on fixing. A thread at Google...

Posted on October 28, 2009 8:57 AM

Yesterday, Google announced the launch of the new Google Merchant Center. The Google Merchant Center will replace Google Base for those who submit products through Google Base. Confused? Google Base is sticking around, but Google has added a new Google...

Posted on September 30, 2009 8:16 AM

The Google Base Blog announced that Google Base data feeds now support a new YouTube attribute that allows you to define if the product has a video demo on YouTube. The example given is a product search for Nikon d90....

Posted on September 10, 2009 8:29 AM

To be honest, I do not fully understand this announcement, but it is causing a lot of discussion in the various forums. In short, the Google Base Blog announced new marketplace and aggregator policies that are going into effect December...

Posted on September 8, 2009 8:42 AM

Google continues to try out new ad formats for integrating Google Product data from Google Base into the AdWords results. Recently a reader sent Search Engine Land a screen capture of a new form of Google displaying these product results....

Posted on August 27, 2009 9:12 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has one searcher noticing a new form of Google ads that shows a product image at the top right area, right above the AdWords ads. Here is a picture the reader sent me: I asked Google about...

Posted on August 12, 2009 7:35 PM

Google Blogoscoped and Wall Street Journal are reporting on a new beta advertising product from Google named "Google Product Ads Beta." The new beta is invite only and seems to be a new way of advertisers paying for their ads,...

Posted on June 22, 2009 8:59 AM

We know Google allows products in AdWords now and we even know a way to make it happen for your ads. An anonymous reader just sent me screen captures of Google testing a new way of displaying those products. Here...

Posted on May 12, 2009 1:22 PM

Conduct a Google search for mens or luggage or hard drives and you might see, like I see, in the AdWords are a plus sign for "show products from [site name]." Here is one of the examples: When you click...

Posted on February 4, 2009 8:30 AM

A couple weeks ago, we reported the Google Shopping (Base) Feeds Processing Errors. In short, uploading your products to Google Base might have had major delay issues, depending on the size of that data file. Now, a Google representative, has...

Posted on December 2, 2008 7:47 AM

Sam from OhNuts informed me that Google is having some major issues with Google Base feeds. Google Base feeds are used to send data from your site to Google Product Search, amongst other places. A Google Groups announcement thread says...

Posted on November 21, 2008 8:15 AM

A week ago, we blogged about the effectiveness of Google Base and the shopping SERPs. To reiterate, webmasters have wondered whether Google Base would help them achieve better traffic or if there was no change when utilizing this other Google...

Posted on August 22, 2008 10:18 AM

Is it beneficial for you to submit the products you have for sale on Google Base? What about utilizing Google Checkout? How does this fare for your product sales? This is the question posed by a seller on WebmasterWorld. There...

Posted on August 15, 2008 9:07 AM

A WebmasterWorld member is getting super high bounce rates on his website and think that the competition is messing with him. He'd like to get to the bottom of it. Is it possible for the competition to raise bounce rates?...

Posted on November 7, 2007 10:28 AM

The Google Base blog a couple weeks ago announced that they are now requiring more fields to be filled out in your Froogle feeds (Google Base feeds). For some merchants, this is not an easy task. Here are the...

Posted on February 6, 2007 8:31 AM

Google had a method of converting your Froogle feed to an AdWords campaign by using something named "Ads Automator." We first wrote about Ads Automator in September 2004 but ClickZ had one of the first write ups on it on...

Posted on December 29, 2006 8:06 AM

I wrote about Google Base Store Connector at SEW Blog when it first launched. In short, you can download a Windows based application to your computer and use it to pull data from your eBay, Amazon or Yahoo! stores and...

Posted on October 17, 2006 7:08 AM

This is pretty bad, a search on jobs in norfolk or jobs in san jose and up comes a Google Base OneBox result. But now, if you click on those links, they take you to a broken URL, in the...

Posted on October 13, 2006 8:15 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is discussing a PC Advisor article named Google plans upgrade for search engine. Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping...

Posted on September 26, 2006 7:36 AM