When will the Google Feed be back and working?

[iwiw60]

Thanks, Mel...as always, you're very helpful!

[TiasTreasures]

When I looked this morning, there were about 100,000 auctions listed for US eBid. Just checked now, it's over 125,000. It's obvious this takes time, so I'm going to wait until Monday and see where it stands.

I bought something I found listed, so I can't afford to do this very often!

[banrigh]

I gave up waiting and uploaded myself. All of mine are now on Google.

[Gothicina]

When I tried looking on Friday none of my items on either ID were showing on google shopping, neither were any of Wizbooks.

Yesterday evening, a couple of my book listings for my Kewtonia ID were, showing but nothing else.

Just checked again & 36 out of 37 of my Kewtonia Magz, 183 out of 244 in Kewtonia Books, & over 900 out of 1300 ish in Wizbooks Affordable Books are all showing.(It's increased to over 1,000 while I was typing this)
Yet none from my Gothicina stores, my Kewtonia's Klutter store or any of Wizbooks other stores at all.

Not sure what the criteria is for the order things are uploaded in, it's definitely not alphabetical by username.


The easiest way I've found to check is put in your username, or storename, obviously buyers are not going to do that, but it's a quick way to see how the upload of your listings is doing. If it gives too many non relevant hits you might need to add eBid to the search terms, even that may bring up other seller's listings but as long as you can see your storename you should be able to check some more.


If more than one of your stores have been uploaded & they have a word common to all of them it will show the storenames as filters at the bottom of the page.
ie there's nothing to be found under Kedo, but if you search Dockerills all 5 of his stores have at least some items showing.

If you don't use a word common to all your stores it may not be possible to search for them all at once

[Pendipity]

my auctions rely heavily on Google search too and i've noticed lately they haven't been getting viewed. I have Googled searched my auctions and they seem to be lower down the list than they used to be. they used to be on page 1 now they are on page 3 or 4. have ebid got lower priority now on google?

I have never sold a great amount as my auctions are mostly specialised, thats why google is so important, however, I was starting to do quite well untill very recently.

[Gothicina]

my auctions rely heavily on Google search too and i've noticed lately they haven't been getting viewed. I have Googled searched my auctions and they seem to be lower down the list than they used to be. they used to be on page 1 now they are on page 3 or 4. have ebid got lower priority now on google?

I have never sold a great amount as my auctions are mostly specialised, thats why google is so important, however, I was starting to do quite well untill very recently.

Are you talking about google search or google shopping search?

They are two different things but not entirely unconnected.

The problem has been with the upload that eBid do to google shopping, now that it seems to be starting to work again, it "should" improve your item's placement in the normal google search.

[Pendipity]

Are you talking about google search or google shopping search?

They are two different things but not entirely unconnected.

The problem has been with the upload that eBid do to google shopping, now that it seems to be starting to work again, it "should" improve your item's placement in the normal google search.

Just the normal google search, my shop title comes up on the search now so i suppose it is as it should be, just lower down the list than they used to be.

[banrigh]

I had the same problem and it seems that a server switch over left us off Google for some time. I discovered this when I couldn't find my items with the search engine or on Google Shopping. It seems now that eBid is reconnected but it is taking forever for items to return. I gave up waiting and uploaded to Google Base myself and by last night all of my items were there. During the time I was waiting for all to show on Google shopping, my items were starting to show up in the search engines and this morning...MY SALES WERE BACK!

[Gothicina]

I had the same problem and it seems that a server switch over left us off Google for some time. I discovered this when I couldn't find my items with the search engine or on Google Shopping. It seems now that eBid is reconnected but it is taking forever for items to return. I gave up waiting and uploaded to Google Base myself and by last night all of my items were there. During the time I was waiting for all to show on Google shopping, my items were starting to show up in the search engines and this morning...MY SALES WERE BACK!

I don't think the server change has even happened yet.

If you read Gazza's post it tells you that eBid have changed the way they do the uploads, probably to stop those that kept complaining about reviews that were not relevant to their goods.

As I use my username as part of my storenames I was curious as to why I had just one listing under my username alone. When I checked it was because for some reason I'd not put it in any of my stores.

I like the way it's done now, it's so much better, & much more professional looking.

The upload is still ongoing, my gothicina items are starting to show now. The UK upload seems to be going faster than the US one, but more & more items are appearing.

[banrigh]

Well...now I am confused. My items were on google base last night, but this morning they aren't. Back to square one.