Y FEED

Export your MIVA Merchant product data in the basic file format required for Yahoo Product Submit (© 2003 Yahoo! Inc.) using this module. The data feed submissions automate inclusion in their ecommerce search directory. Fields included: code, product-url, name, description (html removed), price, image-url, merchant-category, shopping-category . See "Limitations" below for products not included in this module release. This MIVA Merchant plugin module works with both MMUI and OpenUI. No mmui.mv edits required.

Most agree, Yahoo! is the king of commercial and non-commercial directories on the Internet. Their new venture to create a listing of actual items for sale across the Internet, rather than pages with hits on keywords, is a bold attempt to better target customers and buyers in a symbiotic relationship. This is a giant leap in eCommerce, providing comparison shopping using the Yahoo! Product Submit index. How much have you invested in getting your store's search engine rankings? Now you can better target your actual product pages.

A module designed for the specific purpose of creating a data feed for Yahoo! Product Submit (© 2003 Yahoo! Inc.), rather than a generic data export can include features which make it the best solution for the task:

• Include an affiliate code in the URLs so that you can better track where actual sales are coming from
• If your store is a single store in the domain, you can remove the Store_Code from the URL to aid in search engine spidering
• If you are using our Flexible Product Description (recommended) or our Edit More (only for the very experienced) modules, the additional field data can be added to the description for the general products data feed or as separate fields for books, music and videos.
• Y Feed plugin module creates the datafeed flat file directly from your admin
  • Frequent, no hassle submissions keep your data current in Yahoo Product Submit (© 2003 Yahoo! Inc.).
  • 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
• Control over category insertion
  • Limit export to specific categories
  • Automatically builds the category hierarchy from each product's category up to top level category
  • Add Yahoo! category names, in addition to the actual category hierarchy
• Removes html from your product descriptions
• Included in the module are features to eliminate timeouts when generating the data feed export of large numbers of products
• Exports to your documents directory rather than your data directory for ease of capture and transmittal

MIVA Merchant (© 2002 MIVA Corp.), Yahoo! Product Submit (© 2003 Yahoo! Inc.), and MS Excel (© 2003 Microsoft Corporation) are copyright by their respective owners.

Steps

Submit request to Yahoo! Inc. for acceptance into the program INFO

Install this module and run it

Once accepted, FTP resulting datafeed flat file to Yahoo!

Check your pages in Yahoo! Product Submit (© 2003 Yahoo! Inc.) when they show up

Limitations:
Currently the module can only be used for the general products export for Merchant 4.x uncompiled. With the compiled version (Merchant 4.14 and newer) of the module, you can export book, music, and video type products if you are using one of the additional field methods above.

This module is no longer available as a separate product. Its capabilities have been incorporated into the TDF.