just google it. my items show up on the first page of google search results, and cost me NOTHING! I pay no 'ad-words' and don't even know what they are, (nor care). Best part is that my items sell great, and I paid all my bills last months, this months, and next months with just last month's income from google base.

It will be ebay's demise, it's already producing more search results than ebay. It's easy, free, it works AND they have real customer service people who have brains.

Just trust me on this. After you confirm it, please help spread the word. I hate ebay, I don't want them to fix it. I want them to finish killing themselves off.

Is this the one where you have to relist your items every 30 days? If so, is there a fast way to do that, or is it a one by one type of thing? How do you handle it?

Thanks

I submit all the items from my store 2-3 times a month to keep them fresh since I add or remove items or prices change. Here's the link to learn more:

http://base.google.com/

sylvia

How do you check to see if your item is on the first page? Do you just type in the title? If not on first page then what? Thanks..

I've already had 8 sales from googlebase.

Since PSU stores feed doesn't work, I had to hand-type all 136 items into google base, one by one.

When they expire after 30 days, I have to edit them back to 30 days, each one by one. I wish google would add a "select all" function to relist.

The PSU Store feed does work, that's what I use to send to google base. If you need help with it, you might try posting in the stores help boards.

sylvia

Google Base has other methods available mentioned on their help pages. I believe a spreadsheet can work, or other databases. I suggest you post in the PSU Stores dedicated forums to get help with the feed.

- Geez, I've tried the feed before and google always rejected it never had the proper columns or something.

Oh well, too late now. Thanks for the response!!

Kathy

Submitting listings with googlebase was like jumping
through hoops. Especially irritating was so many of
my listings being rejected or disappearing after 1 or
2 days.

I would love to see an easy to use bulk loader, but
I havn't seen any real improvements in over a year.

The instructions for creating a tab-delimited file are here:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=58083&hl=en

there are even videos for MS Excel and Open Office.

The basic 4 required attributes are in the image on that page. The more attributes you include, the better chance your items have of being found. Google has lists and lists of attributes you can use.

Dunno how much better than that it can get. Step by step instructions. Practice makes perfect.

I asked a question yesterday about submitting a separate file that I wanted to do and got an answer in an hour. From a PERSON, who signed their NAME! When I thanked them (I was that shocked), they responded again! Same person!

sylvia

A little question regarding GC and ecrater. I know that ecrater feeds to google but is it useful to list your items to GC nonetheless?

If it was me, I wouldn't. eCrater is already doing it for you - just make sure they are. I don't see any extra benefit from you also doing it.

The question I submitted to google base yesterday may answer your question anyway. I wanted to submit a feed provided by one of the auction sites I will be listing on. I went through the steps and it was rejected. So I asked the question (thinking I knew the answer, but wanted to see it written out).

You can't submit listings to google base for a domain that isn't your own. So if you wanted to submit your eCrater listings, odds are you can't because they're listed under eCrater's domain. But then again, why do double work?

What you could do that would be effective is use other marketing methods to promote your eCrater store to get the word out.

Start a blog about what you sell, with interesting tidbits of info that your customers would like and link back to your store in the content of the articles.

Use the social media marketing stuff to get yourself 'out there.' Squidoo, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

hope this helps,
sylvia

kathykld123 wrote (View Post): › I've already had 8 sales from googlebase. Since PSU stores feed doesn't work, I had to hand-type all 136 items into google base, one by one. When they expire after 30 days, I have to edit them back to 30 days, each one by one. I wish google would add a "select all" function to relist.

Kathy Maybe this will help with your psu store google base upload.
Go to store>products>froogle feed export and check the Enable Offer ID box. Then in the bottom left click export your froogle feed. I save mine to desktop and then change the file name to the data feed I registered with google base and upload it. It may take a few hours to be approved, but this always works for mind. I upload mine at least twice a month, when I first started I let it expire a few time and sales and traffic dropped. Also if it expires and your upload it seems to take a few days for your items to work there way up in the search.

Hope this helps,

Terry

Google Base is essential to our site. Our uniques dropped 66% when I had forgot to relist the items on Google Base. I put them back on and the next day everything was back to normal.

I'm not exactly sure how it will be eBay's demise as you can add your eBay items to it.

Are you saying if you sell on a site such as Blujay, if the items aren't being submitted to Google, you can't submit your feed because you don't own the domain? Some of my items can be found in Google products but rarely show up in the general Google Search. I am moving my store to BISI and wondered if I will be able to create a feed since it isn't my domain. I have heard they do a great job submitting for you, but who knows! I am still learning and any input would be greatly appreciated.