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		<title>Do You Squidoo?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days, we have been playing around with Squidoo to market and help promote our excellent business directories. Squidoo is a service that allows you to create &#8220;Lens&#8221;, these are simple, one pages about whatever you fancy and are interested in at the time. I&#8217;ve seen lenses so far about Winston Churchill, Blogging, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last few days, we have been playing around with <a href="http://www.squidoo.com" target="_blank">Squidoo</a> to market and help promote our excellent business directories. Squidoo is a service that allows you to create &#8220;Lens&#8221;, these are simple, one pages about whatever you fancy and are interested in at the time. I&#8217;ve seen lenses so far about Winston Churchill, Blogging, The Premiership, Arcade Games, Travelling, Backpack Holidays and more! They&#8217;re quite popular and hopefully will get more traffic to the sites in question, as well as further promoting the Livetech Brand.</p>
<p>We have created three Squidoo pages, one for <a href="http://www.northwalesholidayparks.co.uk" target="_blank">North Wales Holiday Parks</a>, one for <a href="http://www.windowsnorthwest.co.uk" target="_blank">Windows North West</a> and one for <a href="http://chesterandcheshire.net/homesub.php" target="_blank">Chester and Cheshire</a>, you can see them here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/northwalesholidayparks" target="_blank">North Wales Squidoo</a><br />
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/windowsnorthwest" target="_blank">Windows North West Squidoo</a><br />
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/chesterandcheshire" target="_blank">Chester Squidoo</a></p>
<p>Hopefully, it will really add to the business. Are you on squidoo? Why not <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/livetech" target="_blank">add me as a friend here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Your Product Feed Appearing In Google Base But Not Google Products? How To Fix It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, through work with Duckworths, we had a trickly little problem. We wanted their products appearing on Google Products. A bit of research led us to find we had to submit a product feed to Google Base. After finding a plugin for Zen Cart that allowed us to easily create Google Feeds, we submitted the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, through work with <a href="http://www.duckworthsuk.com" target="_blank">Duckworths</a>, we had a trickly little problem. We wanted their products appearing on <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/products" target="_blank">Google Products</a>. A bit of research led us to find we had to submit a product feed to <a href="http://base.google.co.uk/" target="_blank">Google Base</a>. After finding a plugin for <a href="http://zen-cart.com/" target="_blank">Zen Cart</a> that allowed us to <a href="http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67850&amp;highlight=Google+Products" target="_blank">easily create Google Feeds</a>, we submitted the feed to Google Base.</p>
<p>After 24 hours, we found that whilst listed on Google Base, we weren&#8217;t listed in Google Products. After much toing and froing, we fixed it.</p>
<p>There are a number of reasons for why your feed isn&#8217;t listed in Google Base, but not Google Products, here are the most common, as the forums are innundated with how to fix it.</p>
<p><strong>You Don&#8217;t Specify The Price<br />
</strong>Google Products is a rudimentary price comparison site, so if you do not specify a price for your product, you don&#8217;t get listed.</p>
<p><strong>Your Feed Contains The rel=&#8221;location&#8221; Attribute<br />
</strong>Google assumes with this attribute that the item on Google Base is a local listing (like your local paper&#8217;s classified section)  rather than an item you can purchase over the internet. So don&#8217;t include it in your google feed.</p>
<p>The above two problems usually sorted out with most feed creator plugins, however even if you use plugins to generate your feed, problems can still arise. Here&#8217;s two more common mistakes.</p>
<p><strong>Your Items Aren&#8217;t Registered As Products<br />
</strong> When you register your feed in Google Base, you need to make sure you list it as &#8220;Products&#8221;, rather than anything else. Google has a number of resources that utilise Google Base technology, and only Google Base amalgamates all of them. Each feed has different structures and attributes, so not only will you not appear in Google Products, you probably won&#8217;t appear in anything apart from Google Base.</p>
<p><strong>You Submit To The Wrong Area</strong><br />
There are a number of different versions of Google Products, make sure you submit to the right one:</p>
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<li> Items must be listed in English.</li>
<li> Product prices must be listed in US dollars.</li>
<li> Products must be shippable throughout the continental US.</li>
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<li> Items must be listed in English.</li>
<li> Product prices must be listed in pounds sterling.</li>
<li> Products must be shippable throughout the mainland UK.</li>
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<td><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/products" target="_blank">Google Products UK<br />
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<td><a href="http://base.google.co.uk" target="_blank">Google Base UK<br />
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<li>  Items must be listed in German.</li>
<li>Product prices must be listed in euros.</li>
<li> Products must be shippable throughout Germany.</li>
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<td><a href="http://www.google.de/products" target="_blank">Google Products Germany<br />
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<td><a href="http://base.google.de" target="_blank">Google Products Germany<br />
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<p>If you check the above 4 methods, then your products will appear on Google Products!</p>
<p><strong>Thanks To</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.duckworthsuk.com" target="_blank">DuckworthsUK</a><br />
<a href="http://www.livetech.co.uk" target="_blank">Livetech</a></p>
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