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Can't find my items on Google Shopping ?!
I thought it had been very quiet this month so I went to have a look at Google Shopping and to my horror I couldn't find one of my items, or my shops for that matter ! What is going on ? All I could find was pottery from Etsy, Ebay and Oxfam. http://www.pic4ever.com/images/15.gif
Can anyone else find their items over there or is it just me ?
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Me neither. No mention of eBid on either Google search or Google shopping. Does not bode well.
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I've sent an email to support to try and find out what is going on Gill.
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Eek, I just did a general Google for Becky's Hoard and only my pottery shop came up ( none of the other four) and it said 'No information is available for this page' I went to the information bit and it said :- The page owner blocked this page from Google in a suboptimal way, so we couldn't create a good page description. If you know the site owners, let them know that "robots.txt is blocking Google and can't create a site description in search results".
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I just did a Google shopping search for a couple of my items, including specific coins, & they popped up no worries. In fact they were at the top of the list.:cool:
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PS. Just searched for Gemworxoz (general google search) & got a whole page of my goodies, & my All About page is at the top!:o
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cornishmaid1961
I've sent an email to support to try and find out what is going on Gill.
Thanks Becky. If this is going to happen then there's no point in listing.
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Oldandintheway
PS. Just searched for Gemworxoz (general google search) & got a whole page of my goodies, & my All About page is at the top!:o
This could be a UK problem old.
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Oldandintheway
PS. Just searched for Gemworxoz (general google search) & got a whole page of my goodies, & my All About page is at the top!:o
Maybe it's just the U.K. pages then ? Only my pottery shop and my jewellery shop are appearing when I Google for them generally and they are both without a description. My other three shops are not appearing at all. There are just a few forum quotes appearing in relation to them. Nothing of mine is appearing in Google Shopping.
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Yes it's all AOK down here ATM - hope support knows what the problem is for you guys!
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It's not boding well for the UK at the moment. I wonder if the US has any problems.
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My stores show up on an ordinary search but I can't find my items on a shopping search.
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I’ve recently noticed that there aren’t many of my listings showing on Google shopping either. Items that I knew were showing in the past. Does google shopping drop items after a certain length of time?
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I'm in the U.S. Mine are not showing . .. at all . . . on Google Shopping. They are getting good placement on Google Search.
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I just tried a general search for one of my items and all that came up was a link to the old listing that finished on the 6th January, the current listing is not there at all ! It's like I have been obliterated from Google ! http://www.pic4ever.com/images/263cylj.gif
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Searching Beckys hoard eBid returns several (I didn't count them) pages of results
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astral276
Searching Beckys hoard eBid returns several (I didn't count them) pages of results
Thank goodness for that, they are back on Google Shopping this morning ! I can still only find two out of five of my shops though doing a general search.
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cornishmaid1961
Thank goodness for that, they are back on Google Shopping this morning ! I can still only find two out of five of my shops though doing a general search.
This search returns quite a lot of your items (again I didn't count them) in a non-shopping Google search.
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astral276
This search returns quite a lot of your items (again I didn't count them) in a non-shopping Google search.
Thanks that link doesn't take me anywhere but I agree some of my things are now coming up in non-shopping search and a lot of my photos are back too (which weren't there last night - only Pinterest ones were showing).
However only my pottery shop and jewellery shop are coming up in general search. If I Google 'Becky's Hoard Kitchenalia', 'Becky's Hoard Books', or 'Becky's Hoard Brocante' they don't show. The two that do show, as I said before, have missing descriptions with the information :- The page owner blocked this page from Google in a suboptimal way, so we couldn't create a good page description. If you know the site owners, let them know that "robots.txt is blocking Google and can't create a site description in search results"
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cornishmaid1961
Thanks that link doesn't take me anywhere...
Probably because it came from my tablet. The search was beckys hoard ebid -forums, with the country set to UK to filter out all the duplicate results on international sites.
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However only my pottery shop and jewellery shop are coming up in general search. If I Google 'Becky's Hoard Kitchenalia', 'Becky's Hoard Books', or 'Becky's Hoard Brocante' they don't show.
I get hits from all your stores.
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The two that do show, as I said before, have missing descriptions with the information :-
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The page owner blocked this page from Google in a suboptimal way, so we couldn't create a good page description. If you know the site owners, let them know that "robots.txt is blocking Google and can't create a site description in search results"
Haven't seen that. The way I am searching, store based, often doesn't have a good description as it is picking up your About Me page text instead. If I search on a specific item then the listing description is returned - though i haven't checked every one.
I think you just have to accept that Google and its search results are a law unto themself and totally unpredictable.
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astral276
I think you just have to accept that Google and its search results are a law unto themself and totally unpredictable.
Tell me about it !!! I don't know how eBid keeps up with all their changes ?! Good to know you can find my shops even if I can't.
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I just googled my shop name and it appears on results, and when I click on the "Shopping" tab, my items appear.
Maybe it was just a glitch.
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eBid said they would look into my problem today.
I can now Google my kitchenalia shop, so that's something, but my books and brocante shops are still missing and the other three still do not have descriptions.
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Can't find any of my listings on either Google search or Google shopping ! If I type in booksntings then it brings up all of my listings, but how do people know what to look for unless they have purchased from me before. Sadly losing faith in getting any regular sales anymore.
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Mine don't show up unless i put my id and ebid in either but then I have never thought much of google shopping but suppose it's what you sell as well, i mean in my case.
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booksntings
Can't find any of my listings on either Google search or Google shopping ! If I type in booksntings then it brings up all of my listings, but how do people know what to look for unless they have purchased from me before. Sadly losing faith in getting any regular sales anymore.
I don't believe it, I just did a search and all my stuff has gone again like last night ! It was there this morning, are they limiting our hours or something for eBid items ?! As you say it makes you wonder if it's worth the effort any more if Google are going to mess us around like this ?
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cornishmaid1961
I don't believe it, I just did a search and all my stuff has gone again like last night ! It was there this morning, are they limiting our hours or something for eBid items ?! As you say it makes you wonder if it's worth the effort any more if Google are going to mess us around like this ?
This certainly must have something to do with the slower rate of sales.
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booksntings
This certainly must have something to do with the slower rate of sales.
Too right. I've just looked and my items that were there this morning have gone again. So that means anyone searching for an item I have this evening won't find it. This month has been a disaster in sales so far. I must try and remember to check tomorrow afternoon and try and find out what time of day this is happening.
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cornishmaid1961
Too right. I've just looked and my items that were there this morning have gone again. So that means anyone searching for an item I have this evening won't find it. This month has been a disaster in sales so far. I must try and remember to check tomorrow afternoon and try and find out what time of day this is happening.
just checked GS for my stuff under brand name not ebid or sidthelamp tilley vapalux nothing showing for me what so ever no sales since september , the worst period on ebid i have ever had,
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sidthelamp
just checked GS for my stuff under brand name not ebid or sidthelamp tilley vapalux nothing showing for me what so ever no sales since september , the worst period on ebid i have ever had,
Things were fairly normal for me sales wise up until January and then it became deathly quiet. I had my last newbie buyer on the 31st December so whatever is going on with lack of visibility started sometime after the new year.
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cornishmaid1961
Things were fairly normal for me sales wise up until January and then it became deathly quiet. I had my last newbie buyer on the 31st December so whatever is going on with lack of visibility started sometime after the new year.
I did a general search in Google for lefton and 0 items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay, replacements, etsy and others.
I did a general search in Google for lefton ebay and 0 items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page) but it was filled with items for ebay.
I did a general search in Google for lefton ebid and two thirds of the items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page).
I did a general search in Google for lefton ropegg ebid and everything on the only two pages but 1 item was for eBid.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton and 0 items came up for eBid on 10 pages but there was items for ebay, replacements, etsy and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton ebay and 0 items came up for eBid on 10 pages but the items were there for ebay.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton ebid and 0 items came up for eBid on the only page which only had 1 item on it and that item had nothing concerning lefton or eBid in it.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton ropegg ebid and 0 items came up for eBid on the only page which only had 1 item on it and that item had nothing concerning lefton, ropegg or eBid in it.
Edit: I used Lefton because that is most of what I have listed on ropegg.
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I guess I only ever do a general search. Not sure who uses shopping search. I haven't seen any of my slides there on any of the first 4-5 pages for awhile. Maybe I'm looking the wrong way, but probably am looking the way many slide collectors would look.
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ropegg
I did a general search in Google for lefton and 0 items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay, replacements, etsy and others.
I did a general search in Google for lefton ebay and 0 items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page) but it was filled with items for ebay.
I did a general search in Google for lefton ebid and two thirds of the items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page).
I did a general search in Google for lefton ropegg ebid and everything on the only two pages but 1 item was for eBid.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton and 0 items came up for eBid on 10 pages but there was items for ebay, replacements, etsy and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton ebay and 0 items came up for eBid on 10 pages but the items were there for ebay.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton ebid and 0 items came up for eBid on the only page which only had 1 item on it and that item had nothing concerning lefton or eBid in it.
I did a shopping search in Google for lefton ropegg ebid and 0 items came up for eBid on the only page which only had 1 item on it and that item had nothing concerning lefton, ropegg or eBid in it.
Edit: I used Lefton because that is most of what I have listed on ropegg.
To me it seems something is missing ------ if the sellers name or eBid needs to be put in the search.
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It's not good if the search requires that, because you are trying to get people to find your items who are new and don't know you or your site or your name.
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I do wish that eBid would address this. Why are ebid items not showing up anymore?
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sidthelamp
my items are back on GS
Mine always come back in the morning but are gone again by the evening Sid.
Check again this evening and I bet you find they have vanished again !
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sidthelamp
my items are back on GS
I did a general search in Google for tilly lamp uk and 0 items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a general search in Google for tilly lamp uk ebid and 4 items came up for eBid (they were for sidthelamp) on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a general search in Google for tilly lamp uk sidthelamp ebid and 5 items came up for eBid (they were for sidthelamp) on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for tilly lamp uk and 0 items came up for eBid on 9 pages but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for tilly lamp uk ebid and 0 items came up for eBid on the only page but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for tilly lamp uk sidthelamp ebid and 0 items came up for eBid or anyone else.
I wonder how many people will put in ebid or sidthelamp when they are searching.
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ropegg
I did a general search in Google for tilly lamp uk and 0 items came up for eBid on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a general search in Google for tilly lamp uk ebid and 4 items came up for eBid (they were for sidthelamp) on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a general search in Google for tilly lamp uk sidthelamp ebid and 5 items came up for eBid (they were for sidthelamp) on the first page (only checked first page) but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for tilly lamp uk and 0 items came up for eBid on 9 pages but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for tilly lamp uk ebid and 0 items came up for eBid on the only page but there was items for ebay and others.
I did a shopping search in Google for tilly lamp uk sidthelamp ebid and 0 items came up for eBid or anyone else.
I wonder how many people will put in ebid or sidthelamp when they are searching.
my listings for tilley are spelt tilley i did one search just now ,,and get one result page 5 vapalux gives me numerous results on page one, i only search the brand name,
i can see your methodical approach to searches, ie brand, user name, ebid , and combinations
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cornishmaid1961
Mine always come back in the morning but are gone again by the evening Sid.
Check again this evening and I bet you find they have vanished again !
i will