Submitting your feed to Google Product Search only takes a couple of minutes once all your rules are in place. The best way to do this - and the way that we cover in the most detail below - is to set up a schedule that tells Google to hit your feed periodically to make sure it has the most up to date information for your products. Feeds can also be submitted manually, but that way is slower and more complicated, and would have to be done repeatedly to keep your product data current. We give some information on that method in the 'Notes' section below.

Submitting your feed to Google Product Search

1 – First, log into your account at https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin

2 – Click on the Merchant Center link:

3 – Click on Data Feeds in the left-hand navigation:

4 – If you have an existing scheduled data feed, you should Pause/Delete it, and create a new one to ensure that all the settings are configured as described in the following steps.

5 – Click the New Data Feed button:

6 – Select your Target Country, make sure Format is set to ‘googlebase’ and enter a filename in the Data feed filename field. The value you enter here doesn’t matter, it will not be used. Click Save Changes:

7 – Click the Create link in the Upload Schedule column for your new feed:

8 – Set the schedule for when you would like the feed to update, and then in enter the Feed Endpoint URL obtained from your DotFeed Console into the Feed URL field. Click Schedule to save the scheduled upload, or Schedule and fetch now to save the schedule and have Google retrieve the feed for the first time now.

Notes

Depending on the number of products you have, the feed can take a long time to run. The DotFeed service will not time out/give up processing your feed until an error is encountered or the feed completes. If you ever encounter a timeout error or message about a download being too large when browsing directly to your Feed Endpoint URL, try another browser as some will impose a timeout even if the page is still processing.