Using Tags with Google Product Sync
We extract some information from your Google Product Feed and put it into the resulting content in Sailthru as tags and vars. We can get tags and vars in a variety of ways, listed below.
Tags from the Google Product Feed
We do some pre-processing on the information we extract from the Google Product Feed to ensure it’s suitable for use in Sailthru. By default, we’ll extract the following fields if they’re present:
Google Product Feed Field | Value in Google Product Feed |
Resulting Sailthru content tags |
Resulting Sailthru content vars |
---|---|---|---|
google_product_category |
Clothing & Accessories > Clothing > Dresses | clothing-and-accessories-clothing-dresses, clothing-and-accessories, clothing, dresses |
google_product_category: "Clothing & Accessories > Clothing > Dresses" google_product_categories: ["Clothing & Accessories", "Clothing", "Dresses"] |
product_type |
Dresses > Maxi Dresses | dresses, maxi-dresses |
product_type: "Dresses > Maxi Dresses"
|
condition |
New | new |
variant.condition: "new" |
color |
Red | red |
variant.color: "red" |
size |
Large | large |
variant.size: "large" |
pattern |
Stripes | stripes |
variant.pattern: "stripes" |
gender |
Unisex | unisex |
variant.gender: "unisex" |
age_group |
kids | kids |
Variant.age_group: "kids" |
brand |
Sailthru | sailthru |
variant.brand: "sailthru" |
sailthru_tags |
this,that,the-other | this, that, the-other |
N/A |
Feed-level Tags
On the New Source page in Product Sync, there’s a field called Tags for this source, highlighted in the following image:
Tags in the Tags for this source field will be applied to each item imported from this source. In the instance above, all products imported from the Google Product Feed will have the tags this
, that
and the-other
in all of the resulting content items.
This can be very useful when you want to distinguish between content imported Product Sync and content from other sources, or if you want to know which source a content item came from.
For example, let’s say you have different Google Product Feeds for US products and New Zealand products. You could give the US feed a us
tag and the New Zealand feed an nz
tag – this would make it easier to only recommend NZ Products to New Zealanders, and only recommend US Products to Americans.
Web Tags
When Web Tagging is enabled for a Google Product Feed, we’ll collect content tags from each product’s page on your website.
There must be a <meta>
tag with a name either sailthru.tags or keywords, with comma-separated tags in a content field for us to collect tags from the product’s page, as described here. Note that when Web Tags is enabled, we will only collect tags, and no other metadata.
For example:
<meta name="sailthru.tags" content="red,triangular,soft">
will result in a content item with tags includingred
,triangular
andsoft
<meta name="keywords" content="blue,square,hard">
will result in a content item with tags includingblue
,square
andhard
By default, when we’re collecting web tags, we’ll query your website at a maximum rate of 2 requests per second. If this seems like too much or too little for your use case, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our support team, and we’ll do our best to help out.