Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

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Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

Post by combra » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:10 pm

I know Joe wrote a great review about product marketing feeds a few months ago, but I wanted to see if anyone had any new favorites or ones that didn't work well for them.

Google base and google products is ok, but shopzilla has been my favorite so far. I'm not a fan of Yahoo Shopping due to the $250 minimum investment especially with the lack of control in both budget and time it takes to put up or take down listings.

Any favorites or ones to steer clear of?

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Re: Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

Post by AbleMods » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:00 pm

Anyone use NexTag.com? They just called me today trying to get my business.

I had them send me their file format specs to see if I can include their format in my feed builder module.

Anyone got experience with using them?
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Re: Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

Post by heinscott » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:14 pm

We use GoogleBase, Yahoo shopping, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Smarter, Price Grabber, Become, Pronto, and Netag.
GoogleBase far and away is our best performer, following by (a not close) Shopzilla. I'm pretty sure that shopzilla accounts for as much traffic as the remaining engines combined. We did, however, just turn on Netag recently, so, I'm not sure what that one will be like.

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Re: Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

Post by meer2005 » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:29 pm

We use GoogleBase, Yahoo shopping, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Price Grabber, Become, Pronto, and Netag as well. Nextag and googlebase have the best conversion rate for us.

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Post by Robbie@FireFold » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:43 pm

heinscott wrote:We use GoogleBase, Yahoo shopping, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Smarter, Price Grabber, Become, Pronto, and Netag.
GoogleBase far and away is our best performer, following by (a not close) Shopzilla. I'm pretty sure that shopzilla accounts for as much traffic as the remaining engines combined. We did, however, just turn on Netag recently, so, I'm not sure what that one will be like.
What are you using to shoot out fees to: Smarter, Price Grabber, Become, Pronto, and Nextag.?

I've had a great experience with Shopzilla.

So far my experience was very lackluster with Shopping.com. Their system was overcomplicated with limited options. The conversation rate was about half of what Shopzilla provided.

I'm always up for trying more though. Let me know how you feed those.
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Re: Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

Post by heinscott » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:36 pm

We made our own... Here's a screen shot of it from another post.
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=8805

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Post by Robbie@FireFold » Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:50 pm

heinscott wrote:We made our own... Here's a screen shot of it from another post.
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=8805

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Re: Product Marketing Feeds: What are some of your favorites?

Post by Robbie@FireFold » Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:34 am

I was surprised to read how well you guys do with Google Base. I get quite the large amount of hits, but our conversation rate is sub 1%. My other campaigns area minimum 3%+.

Obviously Google Base is free so any conversion is great. I'm just looking on ideas to get ours up higher.
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