After posting my designs on new Facebook groups and sending the teesforgrads link to everyone I knew who was a student or graduate I went back to Google Base to see if I could find out anything else about it.
Google Base is quite new and serves as an access point where anyone can submit information to be catalogued in the galaxy of Google! When you submit something you have to choose a category for it - I chose products. When submitting new data you can either use the web interface and manually add new items one by one or you can upload a 'feed'.
A feed is literally a stream of data which is packaged in a portable way that can be read by many different applications - in my case I wanted to package the information about my cafepress shop and submit it to Google.
I used Instant Cafe Feeder to create a text file which I then uploaded to Google Base. After uploading it it takes some time to process before you log in to see 'success'! Great succes, but what does success mean exactly for me and my teesforgrads shop? After reading some of the help topics within Google Base it seems that Google Base offers a more sophisticated way to submit information to Google that did the traditional method of submitting an URL and waiting for the web crawler to index it. By specifiying detailed information about your data (or in my case T-shirts) it helps Google to display your products to people to search for what you are offering. Products will also be more likely to appear within Google Shopping (formerly Froogle) also.
If you are submitting a product its important to know that your items will expire after 30 days and you will need to re-submit them. However there are other types of information which do not expire, these include reviews, recipes etc.
Next I decided that it was time I had another location for my blog so I opened a Wordpress account and imported this blog (in fact you may be reading this on Wordpress now!).
Next I submitted my cafepress shop to Google (in the traditional way), MSN and Yahoo and also submitted this blog to the Yahoo feed section.
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