Googlebase

[ojleap]

Hi all.

Just returned to Ebid after a long time away (mainly due to the amount of timeswasters I found here, hoping it improves after the time I have put into putting auctions back on).

One avenue to promote on is Googlebase. This is a free service from Google, and it allows you to list items on the Google system. Weblink is base.google.co.uk... One thing that it does do is allow you to import auctions from Ebay into it - Gary & Mark, you may want to look at this as this is one thing your competition is doing that you need to be looking at - working with the big search engines.

Anyway, I hope to be back for a while - if its another flop this may be my last time here...

ATB
OJ

[*artsbanquet*]

If anyone technical or who knows how to do it, could you please perhaps provide instructions on how to upload our Ebid store listings onto googlebase? Does this need G&M's input in any way?
Thanks

[ojleap]

At the moment, the upload into GoogleBase is from Ebay only... it would need some management involvement from Ebid to ask them to allow them to set up a similar function...

[ojleap]

Oh, I forgot, GoogleBase is what used to be Froogle....

[*artsbanquet*]

Hi ojleap,
Could you perhaps change the title in your thread and address it directly to Gazza and Mark about googlebase? We may have more chance of having them read it that way.

[Rednosty]

Hi all.

Just returned to Ebid after a long time away (mainly due to the amount of timeswasters I found here, hoping it improves after the time I have put into putting auctions back on).

One avenue to promote on is Googlebase. This is a free service from Google, and it allows you to list items on the Google system. Weblink is base.google.co.uk... One thing that it does do is allow you to import auctions from Ebay into it - Gary & Mark, you may want to look at this as this is one thing your competition is doing that you need to be looking at - working with the big search engines.

Anyway, I hope to be back for a while - if its another flop this may be my last time here...

ATB
OJ

Perhpas you need to contact the managers! Not much use this without them!

By the way where do you get your Girls from! I want One! (Just don't tell the wife!)

[ojleap]

Hi all.

For those who don't use Ebay and don't have their own website, you can still use GoogleBase (hence the reason I posted this here) and when you enter the URL link just use the URL link to your EBid auctions... however if you have a lot of items like us, a bulk upload facility is also available.

But the nice thing that it allows you to do is connect to your Ebay store and pulls all of the information from there into GoogleBase, meaning you don't actually have to do anything. Would be nice if Ebid could arrange this for their sellers too.

ATB
OJ

PS - the girls are not available, they are all mine I tell you, MINE!!!! *MAD DEMONIC LAUGHTER*

[PhilsRecords]

Ok I've just realised eBid have stopped listing items on Google products, this is really bad. To do this manually would take me many hours staring at the screen copying and pasting. I have 1,172 Auctions running!!!. There has to be a quicker way. There better be, because Google products (Froogle then) is how DJs look for their Vinyl!!!

I do have a google base account.

I hope there is a quicker way. I need at least is an excel sheet document with Auction Title and given eBid URL. I'll find out what eBid team can do and post later...

[BLOXBOOKS]

Yes PhilsRecords let us know how things go, google base (Froogle) was great when eBid had items there, I checked regular to be sure I was listing at a competitive price, and many eBidders had the best postal prices also.

[Gothicina]

Ok I've just realised eBid have stopped listing items on Google products, this is really bad. To do this manually would take me many hours staring at the screen copying and pasting. I have 1,172 Auctions running!!!. There has to be a quicker way. There better be, because Google products (Froogle then) is how DJs look for their Vinyl!!!

I do have a google base account.

I hope there is a quicker way. I need at least is an excel sheet document with Auction Title and given eBid URL. I'll find out what eBid team can do and post later...

Phil
you can get that from Auctions I'm Running - export listings, in IE it saves it as a text file which you can then import into excel, the good thing about that is you can choose which fields you want to import.
So you can save everything as a full backup of your listings, but can also save another file with what you need for googlebase.

I've got that far but I'm unsure what fields I actually need for googlebase,
I've found that the google instructions are not very clear.