How about a separate Google Base API blog? General Google Base users
don't generally get excited about new API features, unlike us coders.
What about even a separate status blog/rss feed that is regularly
updated with any slow downs or problems across Google Base.
Letting users interact with it would be great because we often notice
problems or drags before Google does.
Guest posts and features on users and developers. Make it a bit more
clear from a real-life example the power of Google Base and what
people are doing with it.
Some what like the Google Analytics case studies : -
http://www.google.com/analytics/en-GB/case_studies.html
> How about a separate Google Base API blog? General Google Base users
> don't generally get excited about new API features, unlike us coders.
> What about even a separate status blog/rss feed that is regularly
> updated with any slow downs or problems across Google Base.
> Letting users interact with it would be great because we often notice
> problems or drags before Google does.
When I first signed up for google checkout using the google base
feature, the create listing feature supported the ability to define
specific shipping amounts by each country. Now when I create a new
listing that feature no longer exists!! However, if I go and re-edit
my old base item listings this feature still exists in my old
listings, I just cant get it to work in new listings.
Why did they remove this shipping feature? And when will they restore
it? I liked this feature, but unlike ebay, there was no way to define
a general international shipping amount for an entire region like
"Europe" or "Asia" or "South America" or even "Outside USA" one had to
specify exact countries which became very tedious... maybe thats why
they removed the feature? I really do hope you restore it because just
like the "tax table" feature that you now have and works well, it
affects the google checkout amount and I have to go back to the
customer and tell him they still owe me a shipping amount which is not
pleasant to the customer!
I did vote for this feature as something that needs to be added back.
A bit of topic interwb but i'll answer the best i can,
The shipping attributes does not currently work, there no news on when
it will be brought back but im sure they are working on it.
You have two options:
1. Add the shipping to the total price (which in most cases isn't
possible)
2. display it clearly on your website and add it into your full
description of the product.
> When I first signed up for google checkout using the google base
> feature, the create listing feature supported the ability to define
> specific shipping amounts by each country. Now when I create a new
> listing that feature no longer exists!! However, if I go and re-edit
> my old base item listings this feature still exists in my old
> listings, I just cant get it to work in new listings.
> Why did they remove this shipping feature? And when will they restore
> it? I liked this feature, but unlike ebay, there was no way to define
> a general international shipping amount for an entire region like
> "Europe" or "Asia" or "South America" or even "Outside USA" one had to
> specify exact countries which became very tedious... maybe thats why
> they removed the feature? I really do hope you restore it because just
> like the "tax table" feature that you now have and works well, it
> affects the google checkout amount and I have to go back to the
> customer and tell him they still owe me a shipping amount which is not
> pleasant to the customer!
> I did vote for this feature as something that needs to be added back.
> Thanks
> On Feb 21, 4:29 pm, Google Base Guide wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > This is a reminder post to let you know that you can view the latest
> > Google Base news on our official blog:
Will you PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE fix the Google Base Store
Connector problem that we've all been having?? Seems like nobody who
has an eBay store CANNOT get their eBay listings published on google
base store connector. I've been having trouble now close to 2 weeks.
I didn't do anything different, it just stopped working one day out of
the blue!! HELP!
> A bit of topic interwb but i'll answer the best i can,
> The shipping attributes does not currently work, there no news on when
> it will be brought back but im sure they are working on it.
> You have two options:
> 1. Add the shipping to the total price (which in most cases isn't
> possible)
> 2. display it clearly on your website and add it into your full
> description of the product.
> > When I first signed up for google checkout using the google base
> > feature, the create listing feature supported the ability to define
> > specific shipping amounts by each country. Now when I create a new
> > listing that feature no longer exists!! However, if I go and re-edit
> > my old base item listings this feature still exists in my old
> > listings, I just cant get it to work in new listings.
> > Why did they remove this shipping feature? And when will they restore
> > it? I liked this feature, but unlike ebay, there was no way to define
> > a general international shipping amount for an entire region like
> > "Europe" or "Asia" or "South America" or even "Outside USA" one had to
> > specify exact countries which became very tedious... maybe thats why
> > they removed the feature? I really do hope you restore it because just
> > like the "tax table" feature that you now have and works well, it
> > affects the google checkout amount and I have to go back to the
> > customer and tell him they still owe me a shipping amount which is not
> > pleasant to the customer!
> > I did vote for this feature as something that needs to be added back.
> > Thanks
> > On Feb 21, 4:29 pm, Google Base Guide wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > This is a reminder post to let you know that you can view the latest
> > > Google Base news on our official blog:
Maybe it's not place to post this thread but I just want to clear the
heads.
I have been reading the posts and came across the one titled "Track
Your Google Base Listings with Google Analytics"
There is a sentence it says " One way to differentiate traffic is to
create unique landing pages on your website specifically for Base
listings. You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same
page on your website, but giving one a slightly different name."
"One way to differentiate traffic is to create unique landing pages on
your website specifically for Base listings." That is logical. Nothing
wrong with this sentence.
However,
" You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same page on
your website, but giving one a slightly different name."
Isn't it that google exactly called "Duplicate Content"? Even it has
slightly different title / name with the exactly same content?
Maybe it's not place to post this thread but I just want to clear the
heads.
I have been reading the posts and came across the one titled "Track
Your Google Base Listings with Google Analytics"
There is a sentence it says " One way to differentiate traffic is to
create unique landing pages on your website specifically for Base
listings. You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same
page on your website, but giving one a slightly different name."
"One way to differentiate traffic is to create unique landing pages on
your website specifically for Base listings." That is logical. Nothing
wrong with this sentence.
However,
" You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same page on
your website, but giving one a slightly different name."
Isn't it that google exactly called "Duplicate Content"? Even it has
slightly different title / name with the exactly same content?
> Thanks for the Blog. It would definitely help us.
> Maybe it's not place to post this thread but I just want to clear the
> heads.
> I have been reading the posts and came across the one titled "Track
> Your Google Base Listings with Google Analytics"
> There is a sentence it says " One way to differentiate traffic is to
> create unique landing pages on your website specifically for Base
> listings. You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same
> page on your website, but giving one a slightly different name."
> "One way to differentiate traffic is to create unique landing pages on
> your website specifically for Base listings." That is logical. Nothing
> wrong with this sentence.
> However,
> " You can do this by simply creating two versions of the same page on
> your website, but giving one a slightly different name."
> Isn't it that google exactly called "Duplicate Content"? Even it has
> slightly different title / name with the exactly same content?
> Thanks,
> Can
> On Feb 21, 3:29 pm, Google Base Guide wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > This is a reminder post to let you know that you can view the latest
> > Google Base news on our official blog:
One thing that would be helpful is a blog (maybe separate) that
focused on the daily details rather than new feature announcements.
For instance when you change requirements, or start enforcing
something new, or switch something we were previously told to do to
being an error. These types of things don't need pages of
descriptions, but they would help a lot when things quit working.
Notifying us in advance before things break would help even more.
please post a blog entry discussing characters
outside the standard us-ascii character-set --
e.g. pound-sterling, copyright, trademark.
how should these characters be entered in
tab-delimited feeds, xml feeds, and the api?
how should we verify these characters are
entered correctly such that they successfully
pass google-base bulk data-feed processing.
please mention windows-1252 (cp1252),
iso-8859-1, utf-8, and us-ascii
please give examples of what would fail
processing or be improperly displayed
or both; please give examples that would
pass processing and would be properly
displayed -- detailing why and why not.
please differentiate between data-feeds
and items posted one-at-a-time in terms
of what might be displayed properly.
Why is everyone ignoring the "FIX THE GOOGLE BASE STORE CONNECTOR "
posts for ebay store owners.
It has not been working right all month long . What is going on? Does
anyone know????????????????????????
> please post a blog entry discussing characters
> outside the standard us-ascii character-set --
> e.g. pound-sterling, copyright, trademark.
> how should these characters be entered in
> tab-delimited feeds, xml feeds, and the api?
> how should we verify these characters are
> entered correctly such that they successfully
> pass google-base bulk data-feed processing.
> please mention windows-1252 (cp1252),
> iso-8859-1, utf-8, and us-ascii
> please give examples of what would fail
> processing or be improperly displayed
> or both; please give examples that would
> pass processing and would be properly
> displayed -- detailing why and why not.
> please differentiate between data-feeds
> and items posted one-at-a-time in terms
> of what might be displayed properly.
