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Exporting your product to Google Base with Boss Cart Premium

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Google Base simple slogan aptly describes the services it offers “Post it on Base, find it in Google.” every item, product or services posted and accepted into Google Base will be found in Google search, usually withing a few hours, and quite high up on the first page of search result, much faster than urls submitted to Google search directly. Submitting your product to Google Base is a must if you want to take advantage of the free traffic Google could drive to your website.

To make submitting your product to Google Base, Boss Cart Premium contains Google Base exporter tool, it makes uploading all product in your shop to Google Base very easy.
The step-by-step guide below shows how to use Boss Cart Premium’s built in tool to export product to Base.

Here are some Google Base related urls:

  • Google Base homepage : http://base.google.com/base/
  • Google Base data description page : http://base.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_GB&answer=73932

Here is the step-by-step uploader tutorial.


  1. Login to Boss Cart Premium admin interface, expand uploader tools, click on “download previous CSV for Google Base”.

2. In the open window after step one, select “Save file” and download the CSV dump to your computer.

3. Go to Google Base login page and login to your Base account.

4. Browse to Data Feeds, Select New Data Feeds.

5. You need to complete the form in this page, pay particular attention to the name you call the data feed filename, it must be the exact name of the data feed filename you downloaded at step 1.

6.  Click on Manual upload file.

7.  Browse to your computer and select the file you download at step 2 and you are done. You should get a feedback from Google Base letting you know the upload is successful.