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TEMPLATE DATA FEED

Code: 1AA00220

Price: $39.50

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Latest Version: 5.079

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Quantity	Price Each
3-10	$27.65
11+	$23.70

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This is one of the "must haves" for all of my stores!. Brian
Easy to use &40;once you've got your around %!&41; and works well. John
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Template Data Feed module exports your product and category data in the file formats required for multiple data feed submissions (Google Base (Froogle), Google Sitemap XML, Yahoo, Shopzilla, etc.) for inclusion in their ecommerce search directories and shopping portals. Improve your search engine optimization (SEO). This Miva Merchant plugin module works with both MMUI and OpenUI. No mmui.mv edits required. Like our other modules, the Template Data Feed module is licensed by domain, so if you have multiple stores in a single domain, you only need one license for all the stores in that domain.

Create the datafeed flat files directly from your admin with Template Data Feed
- Frequent, no hassle submissions keep your data current
- Eliminates the need to copy product and category databases from the server to your PC to produce a flat file export with software such as MS Excel
- Uses your data as it exists within admin at the moment it is run
Exclude/include export of specific products by code, price, weight
Control over category insertion
- Exclude/include export from specific categories
- Include a table for each export that matches your category codes to the shopping index's category system (no need to edit data into each product's custom fields to hold the shopping index category)
Include custom field data. If you are using Miva's custom fields module, the additional field data can be used to populate additional fields and/or added to the description. It can be used in Merchant versions 4.14 and newer. No need to purchase an additional fields module since the customfld.mvc is free.
Convert your store's currency to the target country's data feed requirement (Merchant 5x)
Removes html from your product descriptions
No timeout issues when generating the data feed export of large numbers of products
Show export status in a progress bar (version 5x)
Exports to your documents directory rather than your data directory for ease of capture and transmittal
Optionally send a copy of the file as an email attachment (version 5x)
Create directory style and search friendly links in the feed to match those in your store
Template layout allows you to set the product data in the order you want it
Create xml feeds like
<name>Widget</name>
<price>9.95</price>
List your specials in a specific category for RSS output
Parse OpenUI tokens. In Merchant 4.14-4.2x with OpenUI, you have the option of parsing OpenUI tokens in the product descriptions if they can be parsed in admin (many can but some may not)
Five pre-defined formats already configured in Merchant 5x version: Google Base (Froogle), Yahoo, Shopzilla, Sitemap XML (for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo), Pricegrabber
- Ultimate feed submission tool, you can create unlimited feeds based on your search indexes' specifications fairly easy.
- Minor changes are needed for your url or search friendly links
- You'll need to create custom product fields and assign values in them for the Shopzilla, Yahoo and many other feeds
- Many ecommerce search services are not free, so you'll need to create accounts and pay applicable fees prior to feed submissions (Froogle is free)
- You can even use this module to submit bulk uploads to the free Google Base which lets you define the columns you are going to submit
- Improve search engine optimization (seo) by creating a Google Sitemap XML file
Some of our example feeds in this store are Froogle (Google base) Yahoo Shopzilla Google Sitemap
- Rearrange fields to fit the format of the shopping search index
- Include custom fields not found in the standard MIVA Merchant products database (year, actors, director, etc.)
- Include category matching so if the index uses a different or additional categorization, you can meet their requirements (Yahoo uses your category and theirs, Shopzilla has their own category ID system)

Steps

Apply to the search directory, e.g. Google, Yahoo, Shopzilla, PriceGrabber, and others to be included in their program

Install this module and run it

FTP/upload resulting flat file to the applicable search indexes

Once you get the customer to your site, use our Power Search module for your site's internal search tool. It enhances site navigation far beyond the built in search mechanism.

You spend a lot of time and money with hosting, entering data into your store, and improving the look and feel of your pages. Why would you not want customers to find your site via search engines or shopping portals? You could submit your home page to them and hope all the pages get included in the search index. For better results, you need to submit datafeeds or hire someone else to submit them for you. Take a look at the comparison between the built in features and the alternatives. The answer is obvious, you need to improve your external search index interface. Most of the time you will find the Template Data Feed module does everything you need to increase traffic through well placed search index insertions. For the cost of dinner for two, you can make a significant improvement in your store's bottom line. If you have a few minutes a month to run the feeds and upload them, I doubt you'll need an expensive submission service.

	Built In	Template Data Feed	Submission Service
Price	free	$40	$50-$75 per month
Sitemap HTML	yes	yes	no
Datafeed From Your Admin	no	yes	requires export module
Limit Export By Code, Price, Weight	no	yes	depends on export module
Control Over Category Insertion	no	yes	depends on export module
Custom Field Data Included	no	yes	depends on export module
Convert Currency To Datafeed Spec	no	yes	depends on export module
Remove HTML From Description	no	yes	depends on export module
Feed Timeout Avoidance	no	yes	depends on export module
Automatic Exports	no	yes *	depends on export module
Export To Documents Directory	yes	yes	depends on export module
Send Export As Email Attachment	n/a	yes	depends on export module
Create Short Links	yes	yes	depends on export module
XML and RSS Feeds	no	yes	depends on export module
Multiple Pre-defined Feed Formats	n/a	yes	yes
Licensed By	store	domain	store
* requires cron and a long server timeout setting in large stores

Online overview and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules. Compressed screen shots below are expanded on the install docs 4.14-4.24 and 5.x. See the install docs for a list of available tokens.