Google: Upgrading Your Google Product Feed

In April 09 HEROweb/MightyMerchant released a new method of interfacing your site with Google Base, Google's product feed and shopping engine. The new method allows you to schedule the frequency of your feed uploads.

To switch to the new method:

1. Log into your Site Manager and click "Settings" and then "Google Base"

2. Delete all the setting information and then click "Upload Product Data"

These steps will prevent MightyMerchant from sending the old feed file each week.

Now go to Google and log into your Google Base account.

3. Click your site's Settings tab and then "FTP account".

4. Delete the login information and click "Save Changes".

5. Click the "Items" tab. Then click "Data feeds".

6. Click "New Data Feed".

7. Enter the Country, the type of products (usually Products) and the file name.

8. Set the name of your data feed as supplied by HEROweb/MightyMerchant technical support. The feed will be an "Xml" file.

9. Click "Register data feed"

Feeds can be uploaded either manually or at scheduled intervals:

10. If you choose to do a manual upload, click "upload file" right next to "Manual". Make sure that you select the same file that you registered under.

If you would like to set a scheduled upload of the feed, you have the option to set the scheduled time to as often as you would like:

1. First, click "create" which is right next to "Schedule".

2. In the pop-up box, select the frequency, day and time you want the feed to be downloaded. Then set your timezone.

3. Next, type in the url of the feed.

4. Click "Schedule".

You will now see the last upload date and status of your data feed.