Setting up Google Product Search with Quick Shopping Cart
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January 27, 2012 9:56 AM
Google Product Search™ collects your Quick Shopping Cart's® products' information and submits it to Google®. It lets visitors searching Google find your Quick Shopping Cart's products.
Every time you publish your store, Quick Shopping Cart sends an updated product feed file to Google® Product Search. Submitting your products to Google Product Search is an easy, four-step process.
Note: If you change the currency you use with Quick Shopping Cart, you must change your Target Country to one that uses the new currency.
To Set up Google Product Search
- Sign up for Google Merchant Center. You need a Google Account to use the Google Merchant Center. Sign in to your existing Google account if you have one, or create a new Google Merchant Center account.
- Register your Google Merchant Center data feed. Before Quick Shopping Cart can submit a product feed, you need to register the feed in Google Merchant Center.
- In your Merchant Center Dashboard, click Data Feeds, and then click New Data Feed.
- Configure the following settings:
- Target Country — Select the Target Country using the currency you selected for your storefront. The feed will not function if you select a currency that does not have a matching Target Country.
- Format — Enter googlebase.
- Data feed filename — Must have an .xml file extension. The name can be whatever you like, and is required by Quick Shopping Cart
- File format — Select XML.
- In your Merchant Center dashboard, expand Settings and then click FTP. The username and password you use for this account is required in Quick Shopping Cart.
- After your account is set up with Google, see Creating a Google Products Data Feed in Quick Shopping Cart to set up the feed in Quick Shopping Cart.
For more information, see Google's Merchant Center Help.