This post is by Andrew Davis, Marketing Director of CPC Strategy, a full service shopping feed management agency. He is the co-author of the first-ever Merchant Comparison Shopping Handbook, a free 21-page ebook to optimize merchant comparison shopping accounts and regularly posts on the CPC Strategy blog to help merchants optimize shopping feeds. Greetings eCommerceCircle. I’m grateful for […]
Top Comparison Shopping Engines Revisited
Back in July 2009, we looked at the top Comparison Shopping Engines by traffic. Here is an updated chart: Google Shopping – Free Program NexTag – CPC Program TheFind – Free Program Shopzilla – CPC Program Shopping – CPC Program PriceGrabber – CPC Program Bing Shopping – Free Program Some notable changes in the Comparison […]
Migrate Your Bing Shopping Account Into The New Microsoft adCenter Self Service Portal
Ever since Microsoft made Bing Shopping free, merchants have been lining up to get their products listed on the new Bing Shopping. The was process was very manual, and every merchant application had to be reviewed by Bing manually. They have recently launched a new tool within Microsoft adCenter for managing your Bing Shopping product […]
How To Get Access To The Free Microsoft Bing Shopping
As you surely know by now, Microsoft shuttered Bing cashback at the end of July. They have already launched the new Bing Shopping which is completely free for merchants. Like Google Product Search, it is a must for every merchant to be listed on Bing Shopping. It’s free, so why not? Microsoft is currently allowing new merchants to […]
From Jellyfish To Bing CashBack To Nothing
The latest news coming from Microsoft is that Bing cashback will be retired at the end of the month. In a post titled “A Farewell To Bing Cashback” they say: As part of this “test-and-learn” mentality, we will be retiring the Bing cashback feature, which means that the last day you can earn cashback will […]
List Your Products Free On TheFind.com Via FTP Feed Upload
TheFind.com has been around for some time and has been a great tool for consumers to find the products they are looking for. Until now TheFind has populated its product database by crawling the web and filling in the blanks from third-party feeds. I just realized this a few days ago, but in late April […]
Quick Tip For Comparison Shopping Engine Performance
Comparison shopping engine campaigns can drive tons of traffic — Are you getting sales? That’s the question. We hope the answer is yes. When it’s not, here’s a quick tip to remove under-performing items. You can get better results by removing all items under a specific price. For example, if you sell sneakers you may […]
Flit.com Attempts New Spin On eCommerce Comparison Shopping
Scott Riley is a member of the ZippyCart Content Team – a Daily news team that provides up-to-date news and information about the eCommerce industry. ZippyCart is an ecommerce shopping cart comparison site that reviews and ranks ecommerce solutions for online merchants. As more and more people flock online to look for the best deals at eCommerce sites, many have […]
How To Manage Your Price Comparison Data Feeds
What’s The Problem? Every eCommerce business wants to advertise on as many channels as possible. When it comes to comparison shopping, you will want to syndicate your products to the top shopping engines. The problem is that every comparison shopping engine has a different data feed format and category structure. This creates an extra headache […]