Ok, so continuing from my google issue, I decided to look at the diagnostics for Pricegrabber, Nextag, and Bing. Lo and behold, more than half of my listed items ARE NOT being submitted to those search engines. The main issue with my listings is “Missing manfuacturer, brand, author, or artist name.”…this is coming up on items that are clearly listed as Fenton or another company or on vintage items where the manufacturer is unknown.
How does one fix this?
It is no wonder sales are slow when half your items aren’t out there due to search engine red tape.
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Tortuga Reputation: 160 See Tortuga's booth |
I honestly don’t think this problem is on our end, I think its the monopoly wars of the search engines – but we are the ones who suffer the consequences.
There’s a site I follow called FairSearch.org. They have what the call a “The Google Playbook” ( thegoogleplaybook.com ) and the following, IMHO anyway, says it [URL removed]
“Now, Google no longer delivers the best results for users. Instead it focuses on delivering the best results for its own bottom line.”
I suspect it’s the same with Bing. They’re all fighting for profit, not for search results and new federal regulations in the last six years turn a blind eye to this travesty.
It would seem we’re better off trying to help each other than relying on these greedy search engines who just look for excuses and stupid little “Rules” and demands they make up to keep us off the playing field. Arg. SO frustrating.
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maydamart Reputation: 281 See maydamart's booth |
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Google I am ok on but the others I agree with and some of my items may not qualify but like you said items that are clearly marked like maybelline and things are coming up like that on the other feeds.
Pricegrabber has done 412 items
Nextag has done 428 items
And Bing has only done 376 items
Oh and again I soooo miss the old forums
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ilovegems2009 Reputation: 58 See ilovegems2009's booth |
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I looked at mine, and it looks like things are going thru (I think anyway!) But i see where it says some of my things like size etc were removed because i had them wrong?and yes, i have the same thing….i have the name of the item, but its saying i don’t have a brand???? Very confusing! I don’t know, i don’t understand any of this…..At least with the old forums we were able to help each other, now we can’t get anything done :(
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misskeech Reputation: 1958 See misskeech's booth |
Just putting my two cents in here yes I’ve the same problem. and I’ve not had any luck figuring out how to correct it either. things that are clearly branded and have an artist name are being rejected. I’ve poured over the information on each of the feeds and cannot find why or how to correct it. it would be nice if one of the bonanza support folks could weigh in here and give some insight into how to fix the problems. and YES I miss the old forums too.
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ZiggyZool Reputation: 1320 See ZiggyZool's booth |
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I’ve have worked through a lot of those issues by going to ‘marketing and advertising,’ clicking on the link for ‘optimize for google settings,’ and initiating a feed status review. Then I corrected the items by adding attributes where possible and deleting ones that were kicking it back. [Just a [URL removed] I found a lot of the ebay attributes are creating havoc.] You can do the same thing for any of the search engines.
An alternative is to go to “update items as a group,” and click on ‘search optimize’ on the left. All of your listing and attributes will show. You can use the “Add search attributes” or “Remove search attributes” on a single item or multiple by clicking on the item you want to change. You just have to be sure to type it exactly as it appears in the attribute and in double-ended [URL removed] example [[[URL removed] Harcourt School Publishers]]
Here is a link to the GTIN Validation [URL removed] [URL removed]
It refers to what we know as ISBN.
When using ISBN numbers, always make the primary one the ISBN-13 and eliminate the dashes. If it still rejects it, you can try it with a zero before the number (mostly applies to older numbers).
Feel free to send me a message and I will be glad to help more if I can.
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