Working with Google Product Search in Quick Shopping Cart
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Google Product Search™ collects your Quick Shopping Cart's® products' information and submits it to Google®. By doing this, visitors searching Google can 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:
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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, then New Data Feed. When registering a data feed, check the following settings:- Format — 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 — XML
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Set up a Google Merchant Center FTP account
Log in to Google Merchant Center and create a FTP account. In your Merchant Center dashboard, expand Settings and click FTP. The username and password you use for this account is required in Quick Shopping Cart. -
Set up the Data Feed 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.
