I haven't.. but I'd be very interested in hearing everyones experience with it.

Elegant MischiefWrote:
(I liked the name Froogle better...thought it was cute!)



Who here has uploaded their files to Google Base and what has your success been so far?

Well, first off, there's still a Froogle, and it's still cute, and there's also still a separate Google Base, and it's sorta cute, even if it's not Froogly. But now Google Base has explicitly replaced Froogle's method of data entry. i.e., it used to be that Froogle had its own method to load items into the search engine, which was a bit finicky and slow. Google Base has a less finicky method of loading items.

I find it pretty useful -- sometimes items on Froogle will show up at the top of Google results -- but it's much harder to generate a Google Base/Froogle feed with CafePress than it is with Spreadshirt. That'll probably change as Cafepress's xml tools get less beta.

For now, I mostly just piggyback on the feeds at darnfineshirts.com and stickerpedia.com for my newer items.

would you mind telling how you do said piggybacking or froogle, google base enty? :) I really really need to get promotions out there.

GiftsCustomMade ~Gamer ~Mother ~Me!Wrote:
would you mind telling how you do said piggybacking or froogle, google base enty? :) I really really need to get promotions out there.

Whenever you add listings to darnfineshirts.com or stickerpedia.com, there's an option to include them in the feeds that those sites submit to Froogle. Select something like "Yes please, lots" instead of "No way, I don't trust you".

that sounds easy. :)
I guess I need to get off my duff and submit more then! :D
but I don't like the different account for each one thing
(assuming I'm remembering the right site. i'm so sleepy i may be totally off.)

GiftsCustomMade ~Gamer ~Mother ~Me!Wrote:
that sounds easy. :)

I guess I need to get off my duff and submit more then! :D

but I don't like the different account for each one thing

(assuming I'm remembering the right site. i'm so sleepy i may be totally off.)

Well, it's a different account for each shirt, but you can use the same e-mail and password for each shirt, so it's not really _that_ different than having one account and using a different id for each shirt.

It'd be better suited to my own lazy temperament if I could just have one "teestyle" account and the site would automatically label my submissions "teestyle1", "teestyle2", etc., or even "darnfineshirts1", "darnfineshirts2", etc., but I suspect that I'm actually getting a benefit from being able to call my "accounts" things like "banrepublicanmarriage" or "irunwithscissors" so that search engines can spot those words in the links.

I started submitting to them, but it's an insane amount of cutting and pasting...

Do you need to submit every product or can you just submit every design?

I have most of my designs on t-shirts 2 or 3 ways... each on has unique product code...

Goodness me. I'm a topic of conversation? ;)

It _is_ an insane amount of cutting & pasting, but only if you have a lot of designs.
And I don't think it's more cutting & pasting than the other sites out there . . . unless they limit how many designs you can have. ;)

The good news, though, is that I have figured out how to "yoink" all the necessary data from a CP product page, which would actually make for both a faster product input and a more accurate one. I haven't figured out how to work it into the interface yet, though. ;)

In the meantime, though, here's a little something that's a bit more on point re: Froogle.

I have made a little script that can generate a tab-delimited text feed for any CafePress shop. Even the premium ones, as long as their sections are visible in the sidebar.

I can generate a basic shop in about 45 seconds. A premium shop is about a 45 seconds per section, and the script will skip "parent" sections and go directly to the subsections. It'll probably be a good bit faster when CP's servers are less sluggish. At least I hope so -- a 50-section premium shop took quite a while. ;)

The script will automatically fill in product, apparel, label and category fields based on info on the product page. (I don't think it's possible to view data from the
I'm not ready to share the actual code yet, but I'm happy to generate feeds for a darn fine beta price. Check out DarnFineShirts.com/DarnFineResources.

BTW, the froogle feed on stickerpedia.com will indeed go to your shops, but the feed on darnfineshirts.com is temporarily set to send traffic to your item's listing on DarnFineShirts. There were a lot of folks with inaccurate price info, and it was causing Froogle to reject the entire feed instead of just individual items. So I need to go through and fix some of the data before I can point it directly to stores again.

Ooh! I just figured out how to make an easy CP loader. It'll be a while before I have a spare moment to implement it, though.

nifty...

umm so can I submit just the design page or does it have to be the indiviual products?
(I have a lot of products per design... yeah crazy that way)

I suppose, once you get the spread sheet filled out you just have to keep adding too it..

PS what's a darn fine beta price?

I'll totally vouch for Darn Fine's product upload. I did it and MAN was it worth the effort!

No results from Froogle, yet, but it took the upload without a hitch!

the Keltic KatWrote:
PS what's a darn fine beta price?

Of course if I were really awake I might have noticed the link in the post.

I uploaded a new feed last night and this morning I had 3 hits from Froogle. I haven't had any hits from froogle in about 4 months, so I guess it worked.

Terri