Comparison shopping engines 101 getting your products found

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Maybe you've heard about comparison shopping engines and want to learn more. Perhaps you've never even considered them for your ecommerce web site. In either case, this is the session for you to attend to learn the basics of comparison shopping engines. In this beginner to intermediate level class, SingleFeeds' Liam Supple will give you the knowledge you need, teach you the ins and outs of comparison shopping engines and show you some expert techniques to getting your product indexed on the comparison shopping engines.

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Comparison Shopping Engines 101

Getting Your Products Found Online

Liam SuppleSingleFeed

A Google Shopping Partner

Agenda

• Why are you here today?• Comparison Shopping Engines CSEs• Product data feeds• 10 tips to CSE success

Why are you here?To reach the millions of shoppers that

search for products on CSEs every day.

1 Get Listed on Shopping Engines

Why are you here?

To drive more customers to Product Pages

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2 Drive Traffic

This is why!

1 2 3

To get more customers to Order Confirmation pages

Start-to-finish Search Shopping experience

How do CSEs work?

• Transactions on Your Website-- Benefit: You own the customer

• PPC / CPC-- Free: Bing, The Find-- Category minimum CPC

-- Auction for ranking above minimum

How do CSEs work?

Product Data Feed

Data Feed Service Provider

Product Data Feed

Data Feed Service Provider

A data catalog of your store inventory, prices, descriptions, titles and images.

Data Processing

Data Feed Service ProviderCorrection

ValidationCategorizationCSE RulesMarketing Rules

Traffic to your product pages

Data Feed Service Provider

PLAs in Google Search

PLAs

AdWords

AdWords

Paid Ad

Organic

PLAs in Google Shopping

Tip #1: Use quality data

• Optimized for each CSE & search– Rules & Conventions – Good Product Titles– Product Descriptions

Tip #2: Update frequently

• Keep your data fresh – Data matches your site!

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Tip #3: Use Great Images• Scale well to small sizes• Can see detail – and what it does

Tip #4: Tap big pockets

• CSEs spend BIG $$$ driving search traffic to their sites.

Tip #5 Start Out Slow

• 2c CPC bid• $20 daily budget

Tip #6 Actively Manage

• Don’t ‘set-it-and-leave-it’

• Daily or weekly review

• Check competitor prices

• Optimize search terms

• Test bidding strategies

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Tip #7: Include Shipping Rates

• Give buyers the Total Price– Primary factor in buying decision

• “See site for shipping”– People don’t want surprises

• More likely to convert– Don’t pay for lots of abandoned clicks

Tip #8: Fund your accounts

• Don’t let listings be pulled down because you didn’t fund your CSE account

• Your ads might loose their popularity score

• If your budget is a concern – list just top products

• Use the FREE CSEs

Tip #9: Data feed benefits

A Mobile WebsitePowered by your data feed!

“We keep just one feed updated, and both our shopping engines and our mobile store remain updated and selling.”

-- KitchenKrafts CEO Dean Sorensen

Tip #10: Be in the game

• Get 15% - 25% revenue on CSEs• Not hard to do• Don’t leave revenue on the table!

How can we help your business?

Thank You!info@singlefeed.com

800.705.8852

singlefeed.com

Notes

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Two Google Accounts

Data Feed Service Provider

CorrectionValidationCategorizationGoogle RulesMarketing Rules

Merchant CenterData Feed

AdWordsManage PLAs

Submit Data FeedBidding / Campaigns