Google Base Latest search engine news blog articles from Google Base. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Google+Base.html Google Base News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12516 We've received some feedback from Google Product Search merchants asking for more direction on which values to include for the product_type attribute . We listened to your feedback, and today we're unveiling our new categorization system that you can use for describing the product type of your items. Product_type is an optional attribute that you can use to indicate the category (or categories) of the product being sold. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:48:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6019 Posted by Gilbert Dietrich, German Google Base Team Many of you have been asking for a way to easily upload and publish items for different countries to Google Base from the comfort of your account. We listened to your feedback and have created an international dashboard within your Google Base account, which lets you select different target countries for your feeds. This means that you no longer need to log in to three separate domains (.com .co.uk, and . Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Sat, 10 May 2008 00:52:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5279 Posted by Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager To keep your items in Base current, you should send us a new data feed as often as your item information changes. The great news is that you don't have to send us your file manually anymore. Now Google Base can download your data feed from your website. Here's how to get started: Make sure your updated data feed is available on a fixed, externally accessible URL on your website. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:08:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4657 Posted by Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager The Google Base data API is used to manage and publish all kinds of data. Some of this data is particularly time-sensitive, like news or events that will expire in a matter of hours. Other data has more value over the long term, such as recipes that are intended to be used and shared indefinitely. To streamline the publishing process and make sure that time-sensitive items appear in the snippets feed as quickly as possible, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:58:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=424 By: Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager You may not be aware of the steps your uploaded data goes through on Google Base. Here's a snapshot. First, you upload your file; next, Google processes your feed; and third, after processing is complete, users will be able to see your data in their search results. And starting today, you have the option of receiving a notification email after we've completed the processing (the second step), which will summarize the results. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:41:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=421 By: Chris Azalde, Google Base Support We've been listening to your feedback, and we recognize that our terminology 'bulk uploads' isn't necessarily jiving with the way that you refer to your large content submissions. In light of that, we've recently renamed our multiple item submission method to 'data feeds' because, well, we just want to speak the same language as our trusted content providers. This is only a terminology change, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:02:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=407 By: Chad Hancock, Google Base Support One of my responsibilities on the Google Base team is to help determine which attributes to create for which verticals. In light of that, I'm pleased to announce the triumphant return of one of my favorite attributes: model_number . Back by popular demand, a model number is a unique number or ID code assigned to a product by the manufacturer. This code is sometimes equivalent to MPN (Manufacturer's Part Number), Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:17:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=406 By: Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager Be it products, housing, jobs or vehicles, we want to make it easy for you to upload and manage your content in Base. A number of useful features are underway, starting with today's release of a new dashboard for bulk uploads. The new dashboard provides a better overview of the status of your bulk uploads and your items. New dashboard: Old dashboard: We'll keep you posted as new features develop. And as always, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:08:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=413 By: Jessica Ng, Product Marketing Manager Today, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the Google Product Search Partner Program . The idea behind partnering with data feed providers is to give merchants like you an additional resource to support you in uploading your products. Our partners can help you in many ways when it comes to getting your products onto Product Search, including submitting your feeds with all required attributes, uploading catalogs daily, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:48:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=416 By: Jessica Behling, Google Base Support We're currently conducting scheduled maintenance on the Google Base site and expect maintenance to continue through Wednesday, July 18th. During this time, you'll be unable to register a new bulk upload file or upload your file to Google Base either through your account's dashboard or by using FTP. Of course, this will not affect your existing items or listings in any way. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:36:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=420 By: Chris Azalde , Google Base Support We recently added UPC, MPN and ISBN to the list of required attributes for bulk uploads of the Products item type. Providing this information will help us rank items better and allow us to deliver more relevant results to our users. Starting today, we're asking everyone submitting items to Google Base US whose items are in the category of products and use these unique identifiers to begin including them for their items. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:14:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=403 By Stephen Salinas, Google Base Support As a Base user, you're probably well aware of the increase in traffic that Base listings can deliver to your online business. Now you can convert more of that traffic into sales with Google Checkout, a fast and convenient checkout process that allows customers to buy from you quickly and easily with a single username and password. If you currently list individual products on Base-hosted pages, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:05:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=411 By: Jassim Latif, Google Base Support Here on the Google Base support team, we're always trying to find new ways to provide you with fast and efficient answers. Here are a couple of suggestions to quickly connect you with the information you're looking for: Use the Search Box If you know what you're looking for, use the Search box on the top, right-hand side of the page to search the entire Google Base Help Center . Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Tue, 22 May 2007 08:17:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=419 By Brett Crosby, Google Analytics Do you know how much traffic you're getting from Google Base? Google Analytics is a free and easy way to monitor all traffic coming to your site, including traffic from your Google Base listings. At first glance, it would seem tracking listings from Google Base would be simple. However, since Base listings often appear within the regular search results on Google, it can be tricky to differentiate traffic from the two sources. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 09 May 2007 06:34:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=408 By Marc Scaletta, Google Base Support Heya, I'm Marc, and I've been working on the Google Base team since February 2006. Up until a couple years ago, I spent the majority of my life in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Then my wanderlust finally overcame my rational side and I moved to the Bay Area. When I got here, I heard great tales of the Google culture (and food!) and decided that it seemed like the perfect place for me. Given my background in e-commerce, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:31:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=410 By Jessica Behling, Google Base Support We're always excited to share our ongoing efforts to improve the search experience. Today we announced some updates to Froogle that simplify the user interface and make it more consistent with web search. At the same time, we renamed Froogle to Google Product Search. For more on this, please see our post on the Google Blog , and feel free to share your thoughts on Google Groups . Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:56:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=409 By Naureen Kabir, Google Base Support With Google Base, as with Google search more generally, our goal is to connect people with the information that is most relevant to them. Last month, Roshan wrote a post about maintaining the quality of your items so that they remain live in our search results. One of the things he mentioned that can help achieve this is the product_type attribute. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:54:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=415 By Naureen Kabir, Google Base Support We're happy to let you know that Google Base is now accepting tab-delimited (or TSV) bulk upload files formatted using Google Spreadsheets . Most spreadsheet programs allow you to export data into a TSV file, and Google Spreadsheets is no exception. For instructions on converting your Google Spreadsheet to a tab-delimited file, click here . More details and information about tab-delimited files can be found here . Don't forget, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:06:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=418 By Jessica Behling, Google Base Support Hi, I'm Jessica, and I'm quickly approaching my one year anniversary with the Google Base team. A few days before I started with Google, I drove across half the country with my sister, two cats, and anything I could cram into the leftover space in my car. I've spent most of my life in Wisconsin and was more than happy to leave the snow behind! Outside of work, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:40:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=405 By Clay Bavor, Product Manager A few months ago, I wanted to share some recipes I'd uploaded to Google Base with friends, but there wasn't an easy way to do it. So over a few weekends I used the Google Base API , the Google Gadgets API , and a lot of JavaScript to create Google Base Gadgets . Google Base Gadgets are a simple and configurable interface for searching Google Base data from your Google Personalized Homepage or, using a Syndicated Google Base Gadget , Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:54:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=412 By Kasumi Widner, Google Base Support Maybe you are one of the lucky people who saw the green "Success" message on your very first attempt at sending us a bulk upload. If you're not, I'm sure you've seen some of our error messages on your dashboard and thought "Huh, what do you mean??" We know this can be a frustrating process, and we've spent time rewriting some of the most common error messages so that they're clearer and more actionable. For example, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:26:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=404 By Xin Chen, Software Engineer If you've registered a new bulk upload in your Google Base account in the past week, you've seen the new bulk upload formatting instructions that appear after selecting your file's name and item type. This page represents a large and ongoing cross-team collaboration between myself, Clay Bavor, John McKeeman, and June Lee. Our goal is to provide you with detailed, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:44:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=402 By Naureen Kabir, Google Base Support We want to give providers relevant information as quickly as possible, and our latest development on this front is an update we've made to the Google Base Help Center. Earlier this week, we launched a status module designed to alert providers about any known issues as soon as we're aware of them. When visiting the Help Center, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:15:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=417 By Steven De La O, Google Base Support Back in December 2005, Clint published a post about the label attribute and its usefulness in helping searchers find your items. A little more than a year later, we've had the opportunity to evaluate the information included for this attribute, and we'd like to announce changes that affect its use. Moving forward, we will no longer support the label attribute. We've found that label values can easily be submitted for other, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:44:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=423 By Roshan Vyas, Google Base Support A question I often see from Google Base providers is: "What happens to my bulk upload after it has been approved?" The answer is: items will stay live in the search results until they expire. For some providers, items can expire before an updated bulk upload is submitted, so make sure to schedule your bulk uploads accordingly! Occasionally we have to take items down that don't comply with our Editorial Policies and Program Policies . Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:20:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=401 By Jessica Behling, Google Base Support If you've ever had a question about Google Base, whether it's how to post a single item or what you can do to optimize your bulk upload file, one great resource is the Google Base Help Center . On the main page you can browse through entries organized by topic, or search using keywords. If you're just interested in the day's top five questions, we've got those posted right under the search box on the main page. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:09:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=400 By Clint Guerrero, Google Base Support During the past two weeks we sent out an email to those of you submitting products to Google Base with a request to submit bulk uploads with a richer set of data. We've revised the list of required attributes in an effort to improve the search experience and to improve your exposure during product searches. In response to this note, we noticed some confusion about what values we were looking for. For a few of the attributes, Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:34:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=414 By Robert Hotran Hello, I'm Robert, and I've been a part of the Google Base team since we launched in November 2005. I started working at Google as a contractor in April 2005. I quickly grew to love my job and my team, and so I jumped at the chance to become a full-time employee. You would expect me to say that I wanted access to all the perks and benefits of full-timers, but more than anything, I can't say enough good things about the Google Base team. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:20:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=422 By John McKeeman, Google Base Support If you've stopped by the Google Base Help Discussion Group , chances are you've seen a post or two from me. If you frequent the Group, you may know me by now as the " Google Base Guide " or, more casually, "The Google Base Guy." Every day I check in on the Group for signs of any new issues, questions that need a closer look, or just to post an idea or give a product update. Search Engines News SEO News Google Base Google Base Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:36:00 GMT