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Google Changes Shopping Feed Specifications

Google Shopping Has New Changes To Their Shopping Feed Specifications Google recently announced changes to their shopping feed specifications that will have a direct impact on merchants. While some specs might not affect you, it’s important to stay atop all … Continue reading more about this article »

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Google Product Search Changes Name to Google Shopping and Adopts Cost-Per-Click Model

Google announce on it’s blog today that it will be switching Google Product Search (Google Base, Google Merchant or Froogle) to a cost-per-click business model and will be officially called Google Shopping. Whether you call it pay-per-click(PPC) or cost-per-click (CPC), this game changing transition will … Continue reading more about this article »

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Google’s Product Search Requirements Changes Messed With Your Products

On September 22, Google began enforcing a new Product Search feed spec requirements that was announced earlier in the year. On that date, Google started dropping websites that do not meet the new spec requirements. Additionally, Google can even suspend … Continue reading more about this article »

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How often should you submit your product data feeds?

The question “How often should I submit my product data feed?” comes up quite often when talking about comparison shopping engines (CSE) and seems to lead to debates about freshness, relevancy and algorithms. While we tell most of our clients that a minimum of once … Continue reading more about this article »

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Bing Shopping and Shopping.com – Partnership Announcement

Bing and Shopping.com (an eBay Company) have announced a strategic partnership today. Bing is going to display Shopping.com listings into their existing Bing Shopping results. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and if it is beneficial to … Continue reading more about this article »

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How to Use Data Feeds

Data feeds are becoming an increasingly popular way to keep your website visitors up to date with changes to your site, posts on your blog, or any other sort of frequently edited information. One great example of a data feed … Continue reading more about this article »

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