• Google Merchant Center Data Limits

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    When logging in to Google Merchant Center you will see the following "Alert".

    google product errors Google Merchant Center Data Limits

    Due to recent change to item and feed limits, you may experience errors when submitting your items or registering a new feed.

    Tuesday, November 22, 2011 | 3:43 PM

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    Due to recent change to item and feed limits, you may experience errors when submitting your items or registering a new feed.

    To check whether your new feed is affected by our new item limit, navigate to the Data Feeds tab and click on “x of x items inserted (view errors and warnings)” to the right of the newly registered data feed. You may also receive an error when registering a new feed if you reach your feed limit. You can request an item and feed limit increase by contacting us through our Help Center.

    Important: Existing feeds that have been registered before 11/22 will not be affected, but only feeds that were registered in the Merchant Center after 11/22. When you update your existing feeds, make sure to not delete the existing feed but simply initiate an upload under the already registered feed to prevent your existing feed from becoming subject to the temporary limit. You can do so by choosing an upload method right next to the data feed name under Data Feeds>Upload and follow the instructions as usual.

    Google recommends that data feeds be under 20MB for upload within Google Merchant Center, while scheduled fetch and FTP uploaded feeds can be up to 1GB. Compressed feeds must be under 500MB or you will need to split them in to 500MB or less files.

    While most will not be affected by this, I think new feeds will come under deeper scrutiny with regard to size, data quality, freshness and so on.

  • Disapearing Sitemaps

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    Not as often as I should, but while checking up in Google Webmaster Tools this morning I noticed an issue..... Many of my sitemap submissions are gone! Sites, such as PRO-Webs which has been live for years and years suddenly have no sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, I do check Google Webmaster Tools rather infrequently, but last month the sitemaps were all there, alive and well.

    sitemap Disapearing Sitemaps

    Where Have all the Sitemaps Gone?

    Odd indeed! However, the reason for the post is more for you to go check and make sure everything is in order in your webmaster's tools. Holiday shopping is already on the rise, we cannot afford to let a simple thing like this escape our grasps. So login to your Google Webmaster accounts and check under

    Site Configuration >> Sitemaps

    If you have missing sitemaps as well, we would love for you to comment so we can determine if Google is just picking on us... sob =)

    ***Update several customers websites (all old ones, verified and submitted long ago) are missing their sitemaps as well!

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