Post by cbishwaraj » Wed May 11, 2011 10:24 pm

Hello,
We have nearly 300 products in site and I have enabled Google Base (Tried different versions: default Google base from OpenCart, Google Base Improved etc).

Only few products (47 products) : Which is just 15% of the total products are showing by Google Shopping/merchant center.
How can we make it better? Isn't there any way to feed all of our products to Google?
I would really be grateful if you could please review our feed:

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http://www.izapmen.com/index.php?route=feed/google_base
and suggest me.

Is there any other Google Base Plug-in/RSS feed which is better than this existing default Google Base of OPENCART ?

Thank you for your help.
John, NY

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Post by Qphoria » Wed May 11, 2011 11:25 pm

The issue is in the feed parsing error. it errored after the 47th product so it stopped.
Use IE to view your rss feed as it is the only browser that shows the errors in rss feeds

Looks like something with Taser® > TASER® X26C™ that it doesn't like

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Post by cbishwaraj » Wed May 11, 2011 11:58 pm

Hi Qphoria,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Following is the feed code at line 1147 and it is saying Whitespace is not allowed at this location.
Could you please see the following line: I Didn't understand the white space it is pointing:

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</description><g:brand>Taser</g:brand><g:condition>new</g:condition><g:id>113</g:id><g:image_link>http://www.iZAPmen.com/image/cache/data/Taser_X26c_Yellow-500x500.jpg</g:image_link><g:mpn>26010</g:mpn><g:price>999.9900</g:price><g:product_type>Taser® > TASER® X26C™ </g:product_type><g:quantity>998</g:quantity><g:upc>26010</g:upc><g:weight>2.50lb</g:weight></item><item><title>TASER® X26C™ & M26C™ Replacement Cartridges (2 PK)</title><link>http://www.iZAPmen.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=114</link><description><p>
Could you please help me.
Thanks so much again
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Post by starsunflower » Sat May 14, 2011 2:56 am

I'm a newb with this but wanted to add my imput. It's basically a reiteration of what's said above. The parsers or whatever does the handling of these feeds doesn't do well with special characters. I used google base improved and had to go in and edit a couple of products that had % in the description field. After I made these modifications on the products with the % sign, the entire feed went through fine with no errors.

You have the registered trademark symbol in the product title and also the TM symbol which is likely what's causing the issues. You could try removing this from a few of the items at the beginning of the feed to see which characters work and which don't. Like if it processes the registered trademark symbol then move on to the items that have the TM symbol.

That's just my lowly newb 2 cents on things. :)

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Post by uksitebuilder » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:30 am

Surely it's not a good idea to remove trade marks and/or other special characters as they will have meaning in the product title/description.

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