hopefully this will help nooblets & nooblers like myself understand how to better grow our business. I am having good luck on this site but i I can make more money if I can make informed decisions on how to grow my/our ecommerce stores even more. so here is the list of reasons google is currently not able to advertise my wares. oh and also are upc codes worth it? they only cost a couple dollars. so google gave me a lot of reasons the list is rather long. so we will need a large pizza to survive this discussion lol
This is what the google sent me
Common Product Crawl Issues
We routinely crawl your mobile and desktop product pages and images in order to check for quality issues. If we cannot do this, we will be unable to show your items on Google Shopping. Additionally for landing pages, if we detect crawling errors while fetching either the mobile or desktop landing page of an item, we will disapprove the item for both mobile and desktop devices until we are able to access the landing page successfully.
The most common reasons for Product Crawl Issues [URL removed]
•Page not found (404) [URL removed] You gave us a wrong URL (e.g there was a mistake in the URL) and so the page returned a ‘Page not found (404)’ error. Please check that the URL is correct and your website is live.
•Server’s robots.txt disallows [URL removed] You have robotted your page by adding a ‘robots.txt’ file to your server and prohibited crawl access. We do not crawl robotted pages. Please resolve this by configuring the ‘robots.txt’ file to allow our crawl.
•Invalid [URL removed] Your URL contains invalid characters or does not have the format of a valid link.
[URL removed] Once the issue you are experiencing has been resolved your product may take up to 48 hours to be reinserted into Google Shopping.
There are a number of other issues that may also prevent us from crawling your page.
Common Issues
•Page requires [URL removed] The URL provided is protected by some sort of authentication protocol that prevents Google from accessing the content.
•HTTP 4xx response, HTTP 5xx [URL removed] The server hosting your website returned an HTTP error that prevented us from accessing the content.
•Hostname not [URL removed] We were unable to resolve the hostname of your server to an IP address and so could not access the page.
•Malformed HTTP [URL removed] The response from your server was garbled.
•Private [URL removed] Your website is hosted behind a firewall or router and we were unable to access it.
•Network [URL removed] There was some sort of error in the network.
•Timeout reading [URL removed] The server took too long returning the page and we abandoned the crawl of that product.
•Server redirects too [URL removed] Your server redirected the crawl multiple times and it had to be abandoned.
•Redirect URL too long, Empty redirect URL, Bad redirect [URL removed] The redirect URL your server returned was not valid and we could not follow it.
•Server’s robots.txt unreachable, Timeouts reading [URL removed] We were unable to read your robots.txt file so could not crawl your page. Learn more about the Robot Exclusion Protocol
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HammersmithGraphics Reputation: 315 See HammersmithGraphics' booth |
Thank you for all that. But honestly, i could care less about Google shopping. They dont want the little seller on there, that is my final opinion of them. I have no idea if any of those things were done in my listing or not, all i do is list it and thats it. it shows up in bonanza, right now, thats good enough for me.
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misskeech Reputation: 1958 See misskeech's booth |
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It was very nice of you to share that information, Hammersmith, sincerely, but I’m totally with misskeech. Sick of worrying about that UN small business friendly google.
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maydamart Reputation: 281 See maydamart's booth |
I had google tell me 2 of my items were not going to be advertised because some “widget” in my listing wasn’t up to their liking – after it being on Bonanza for months! I tried to fix it 3 times. After that I just deleted the items from Bonanza but left them on eBay – where google has never said a word about the 2 items. Go figure!
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SuesGarageSale Reputation: 32 See SuesGarageSale's booth |
I hate to say this, but at 1 time I had 200+ items rejected (perfume samples). Not 1 of them were for this reasons listed in your post. This actually sounds more like a Bonanza hick up. Have you contacted support?
You do have the option to elect NOT to send to Google Shopping. This would solve the problem for good, if you choose. You can find this option in Batch edit > Search Optimize > Suppress GPS submission.
Be sure that you first filter for the items you want excluded.
No need to delete any item just because of Google Shopping rejected it. There are other search engines, and could be found if someone was searching for it in Bonanza, like they do on that other site :)
I hope this helps
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Once_Again Reputation: 525 See Once_Again's booth |
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well I have a update sort of. I talked to a very good rep at the big E about this cpu thingy. they said the only purpose it serves is if someone is looking for a item with that cpu. and no one ever does that. there might be a vid on youtube about them
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HammersmithGraphics Reputation: 315 See HammersmithGraphics' booth |
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