Store feeds - who is out there?

[Just_a_bloke]

Just trying to set up some store feeds.

Most of the info I have found is dated, so wondering what others thought.

One of the people accepting store feeds used to be Froogle what/who else should I investigate for selling UK based products to a UK market?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[thegascupboard]

Froogle is long gone, replaced with google base. Pretty easy to setup as long as you have the required fields in your csv.

 

[da8iwr]

Google base is also long gone, it has been called Google Merchant Centre for about 2yrs now.
I developed www.joomlagooglebase.com.

Just_A_Bloke, what ecom system are you using?

 

[buygifts]

The Find also do a feed. Not sure how many people in the UK search through them though.

 

[Websitehandyman]

I can recommend;

shopmania.co.uk

 

[thegascupboard]

Sorry my bad, just so used to calling it google base

 

[da8iwr]

Sorry my bad, just so used to calling it google base

Its ok, i own a company that runs entirely on it, and i still call it Froogle by habit.

 

[thegascupboard]

I understand the difference between googles interpretation of "in stock" and "available to order" but where does this show up for the user? I can't see it anywhere.

I have an issue where we have about 4,000 lines with things in and out of stock on a daily basis and was wondering whether to just change all statuses to "available to order" then we wouldn't have to update the feed all the time. Thoughts?

 

[Just_a_bloke]

Thanks for your posts so far

So a re-cap of the posts of places to send store feeds...

Froogle has gone, Replaced with Google Base

Google Base has gone, replaced with Google Merchant

The Find - http://www.thefind.co.uk/

Shopmania.co.uk


So that's three places. Moving on... Seems like I'm not the only one to have asked the original question, as I found similar posts to my original question, but no answers, however one site promoting a feed service had the following list;

Kelkoo
PriceRunner UK
Shopzilla
Froogle
Shopping.com
PriceGrabber
Amazon
eBay
Play.com

Looking at the list, I would think you'd have to also sell your products through the likes of eBay and Amazon. Searching further found another claiming to send feeds out to a hundred or so sites (yeah yeah - wonder if their service works), they did however list some of their targets, these being;

adflyer
affiliatefuture
affiliatewindow
amazon.co.uk
applegate
Become
buyat
Ciao from bing
Facebook
Findtheneedle
Google product search beta
idealo.co.uk
Jewellery megastore.com
Kelkoo
Nextaguk
Leguide.com
oma
pixmainia.com
pricegrabber
pricerunner
shopping.com
shoppingbank.com
ShoppyDoo
shopzilla business services
skinflint price comparison
SliSystems
thefind
Twinga

Clearly I should run with Google and The Find. I suppose I should be really be asking who not to run with (Jewellery megastore for one! as I don't do jewellery)? Any thoughts please?

In answer to an earlier question, my store runs with Oscommerce and changing is not an option as I have long established URL's which rate highly and I'm currently having it revamped/given a make over.

Thanks

Steve

 

[gemd89]

I use magento feed but it only uploads to google base and the find at the minute. It does have a long list of all the others but most of the other sites I find you have to pay extra for/commission per click through type things - I am happy to pay per sale but not per click.

Gemma