How effective is Google Base?
Monday, 18 December 2006
Brian Smith today pointed out some challenges worth reading about Google Base. For those of you unfamiliar with Base, consider it a comparison shopping engine where you can submit product to be searchable on Google. Like a CSE, you can describe any item you post with attributes and specs to help people find it when
- Published in Comparison Shopping, Google, Insights / Research
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The unknown challenge in Comparison Shopping
Wednesday, 22 November 2006
By now I’ve hope you have had a chance to read my datafeed management strategy “The Kitchen Sink” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) or caught the material at one of the industry conferences. Assuming you have, you know I am an advocate of simplifying Comparison Shopping program management by using one feed, inclusive of
- Published in Comparison Shopping
The Kitchen Sink : Part 3 : Manage YOUR feed
Tuesday, 03 October 2006
So here it is, part three of Comparison Shopping optimization… The Kitchen Sink Last Monday, I started at a high level for which most of you have to do some research about your own store before moving forward; that is, Comparison Shopping is not about direct demand gen, users don’t buy immediately after clicking from
- Published in Affiliate Marketing, Comparison Shopping, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search
Comparison Shopping Feeds : The Kitchen Sink : Part 2
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Yesterday, I waxed, perhaps poetically, about how Comparison Shopping is not the high ROI, immediate sale opportunity most marketers expect. It is a part of a customer’s decision making process, research, and consideration so significantly that if you don’t optimize your feeds to promote all products effectively, you do not exist as a store or
- Published in Comparison Shopping
Comparison Shopping is a Catalog – The Kitchen Sink : Part 1
Monday, 25 September 2006
Many new comparison shopping vendors argue in favor of eliminating products from your feed that don’t perform well as the best way to improve your ROI. I say they couldn’t be any more wrong. Research from CMS shows 90% of consumer electronics customers online use comparison shopping yet I’ve found only 33% use it before
- Published in Comparison Shopping, Insights / Research
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