Discover An Easy Way To Manage Your Product Data FeedsGoogle Base ChangesGoogle Base recently made updates to their feed file specifications, they've added a new field and made a couple of other fields required.
- The MPN, or Manufacturer Part Number, is the new field and it is required
- The UPC, or Universal Product Code, field is now required
- The ISBN, or or International Standard Book Number, is required for all book products
What You Need to Do
You should log on to
www.GoDataFeed.com and map your source fields to these fields, or contact us and we'll do it for you. Your feeds will continue, even if you don't make the changes right away, but Google warns this may cause your ranking to suffer. For more info, view the Google Blog:
http://googlebase.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-attribute-requirements-mpn-upc-and.htmlNew FTP Automation
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Performance Analytics Is Here!
We finally launched our Analytics and revamped our site- check out our new look at
http://www.godatafeed.com/.
Now you can view real time statistics on store, engine and product-level performance.
Performance Analytics Benefits:
- Measure your shopping site campaign effectiveness
- View Real-Time clicks, conversion rates, ROI and revenue
- Identify top performing products
- Reduce costs on low margin items
- Focus on the most profitable shopping channels
Comparison shopping engines are a powerful sales channel for online retailers, but to get the most for your marketing efforts, you have to track performance and continually modify engine campaigns.
To get the most out of your feeds, make sure you are:
- Optimizing content by providing as much descriptive information about your products in your fields as possible
- Tracking your results
- Keeping an eye on your ROI
- Reducing costs on low margin items