• If not all of your records are displayed, click either of the "Showall" buttons in the search box.
• Include in your description any search terms you want people to find you with, since Google searches descriptions when a visitor searches for a product.
• Google drops all listings after 30 days. Although their spiders will spider your site regularly, it is best to submit all your products at least once a month. This will make sure your products are listed, and their search results will display a descriptive description. (Note: The Pro version of Speedo Froogle Feed Generator includes a reminder that will remind you to re-submit your products).
• Store frequently used data in the Notebook . You can then copy and paste the data into the product data boxes easily.
• If you get an error when ftp'ing to Google, check to make sure your username and password are entered correctly in Preferences . They must be exactly the same as what you chose in the Google Base Center. It is also possible that Google's servers are busy. Wait a little while and try again.
• Once you submit a feed, wait a while and use the browser to access Google Base Central to check if there were any errors.
• Google Base requires you to register the url to your web site before they will accept your feeds. This can be done in Google Base Central. Use the built-in browser in Froogle Feed Lite to log in and make your changes.

To track the traffic that Froogle sends you:

There are two easy ways to set up tracking URLs for your product links. Which one you use will depend on how your site is set up (see Methods 1 and 2, below).

Note: after you create your tracking URLs, please test them in a web browser to verify that they link properly to the specified pages.

Method 1

To change a URL like http://www.example.com/product.html to a tracking URL, add "?source=froogle" to the end. The URL will now look like this: http://www.example.com/product.html?source=froogle

Method 2

If the URL already has a question mark in it, just add "&source= froogle" to the end. So your URL would change

from:

http://www.example.com/search.cgi?q=exampleproduct

To:

http://www.example.com/search.cgi?q=exampleproduct&source=froogle

Your web server should already support this formatting without any special changes. Once you have added "source=froogle" to the URLs in your data feed, you will be able to look for "source=froogle" in your web server logs. If everything works properly, this string will appear each time a Froogle user clicks through to one of your products.