Help with RSS FEED! I have it working but want to add to it!

[solstice22]

I am trying to add my classifed images to my oodle feed and can't get the images to appear.....

http://www.oodle.com/browse/-/listing_source_germanshepherdplanet

Here's what I have...



echo "<item>\n";

echo "<link>http://www.germanshepherdplanet.com/index/german_shepherd_ads/page".$show_classifieds['id'].".html</link>\n";

echo "<title>".ucwords(stripslashes(urldecode($show_classifieds['title'])))." - ".str_replace("+"," ",ucwords($show_classifieds['location_city']))." ".$show_classifieds['location_state']." ".$show_classifieds['location_country']."</title>\n";

echo "<description>".strip_tags($shortdesc).".</description>\n";


echo "<id>".ucwords($show_classifieds['id'])."</id>\n";

echo "<pubDate>".date( 'r', $show_classifieds['date'])."</pubDate>\n";

[Matt]

Here's some information I found on the Oodle site regarding images in feeds:

What is image_url used for?

The picture provided via the image_url field of a listing is used to construct a thumbnail image which then appears next to the listing in our search results. This picture must be specifically related to the listing, and is generally expected to be an actual picture of the item being listed. Furthermore, if we are to display a thumbnail of it in our search results, your robots.txt must allow us to download the image, and the size of the image must be no more than 30,000 bytes.

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Why is robots.txt relevant when I'm sending you a feed?

If the feed contains any image_url fields, then we need to download the images at these urls in order to generate thumbnails for the listing. This is only possible if your robots.txt file allows us access to the urls that these images are at. Please give access to "oodlebot" in your robots.txt.

# Example robots.txt entry where all images are in an /images/ subdirectory.
User-agent: oodlebot Allow: /images/

[bgordon]

Contact me offline at admin@canadaboatshopper.com

It looks like you are using the feed script I wrote for you... The sql query does not include the images for RSS. I can adapt it for you to include a link to your images if you want.

I have written an oodle, base and vast.com feed generator that works wonderfully and gets all my ads online with them daily, pictures included.

[geomodules]

I am trying to add my classifed images to my oodle feed and can't get the images to appear.....

http://www.oodle.com/browse/-/listing_source_germanshepherdplanet

Here's what I have...

You need to do some database calls to the proper tables. See thread below
http://geodesicsolutions.com/geo_user_forum/showthread.php?t=6276

I am working on a user friendly version where they build it no matter what tables its in. But it will be a little while before I am done.

One of the biggest problems you will encounter is the description. If html format is on and with most it is. You will need to strip it all and spaces when people hit the enter key to get it well formed.
http://www.oodle.com/sale/pet/horse/?q=topequine&oldq=topequine&inbs=1&bsm=recursion_match

its interesting though while I test there system. They let the horse trailer ads go right in. So they really don't monitor it. I did that on purpose to see what would happen. I am sure they will kill the feed sooner or later I am curious how long it takes them.

If you also view this.
http://www.google.com/search?q=topequine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a (http://www.google.com/search?q=topequine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

I noticed they are entering google. But run off the title I believe. In my listings I have TOPQUINE in brackets. But it might be better to insert a 1 keyword in there I have to test yet. Like for mine... Horses For Sale would be a big keyword for me. I am curious can you use there SEO work and now and add or 2 comes up first. Killing 2 birds with one stone.

oodle did manage to pull page 3 in google on this one.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&hs=WmC&q=horses+for+sale&start=20&sa=N (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=WmC&q=horses+for+sale&start=20&sa=N)


I am like page 5 on this same keyword.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&hs=YSX&q=horses+for+sale&start=40&sa=N (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=YSX&q=horses+for+sale&start=40&sa=N)

Now on the keyword "horse for sale" without the S on horse. I manage to pull up right under them on page 3. Which is impressive. But Pushing for page 1 is always the goal. Some day.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&hs=Q8r&q=horse+for+sale&start=20&sa=N (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Q8r&q=horse+for+sale&start=20&sa=N)

Hope this helps.