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FAST DATA FEED
Emporium Plus > Software > New for Merchant 5 Emporium Plus > Software > Productivity Modules
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Froogle no longer uses a fixed basic feed, so this module
is discontinued. Take a look at our
Template Data Feed. It can create data feeds in just about any order the specification requires and allows more than the basic feed fields.
Export your MIVA Merchant product data in the basic file format
required for FroogleTM (© 2002 Google) data feed
submissions for inclusion in their ecommerce search engine.
Fields included: product_url, name, description (html removed),
price, image_url, category, and isbn (if applicable). This MIVA
Merchant plugin module works with both MMUI and OpenUI.
No mmui.mv edits required.
Most agree, Google is the mother of all search engines 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 Google search engine. If you are a MIVA
Merchant store owner you CANNOT afford to miss this
opportunity, especially since inclusion in the FroogleTM
index is free. How much have you
invested in getting your store's search engine rankings?
A big side benefit to getting listed in FroogleTM
is that the Google company is spidering your site, thus it
may increase the number of your pages listed in Google. There is no direct indication that
listing in Froogle will effect your listing in Google,
only time will tell.
A module designed for the specific purpose of creating
a data feed for FroogleTM (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
You can have directory style links which improve search engine indexing.
If you are using MIVA's custom fields module or
our Flexible Product Description or
our Edit More modules, the
additional field data can be added to the description.
- Fast Data Feed plugin module creates the datafeed
flat file directly from your admin
- Frequent, no hassle submissions keep your data current
in FroogleTM
- 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
- Optionally modify category placement, overriding
actual category hierarchy
- Removes html from your product descriptions; converting
the brackets to escaped characters or even hiding html using
the !-- technique did not satisfy FroogleTM support staff -
it must be completely removed
- 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
Don't delay. The FroogleTM index is still new.
As such, knowledge about it is not yet widespread due to
limited promotion. The FroogleTM support team has been
reviewing requests for inclusion and currently have
reasonable turn around time. Your store may or may not
be accepted and I would expect it to take longer and have
more stipulations for acceptance and continued inclusion
as this service becomes
more popular. You should request acceptance into FroogleTM
as soon as possible. Once accepted, whether you use our
module for building the datafeed or some other software,
you should do it now while time is on your side.
As this is a new endeavor for FroogleTM, I expect them to change
their format and add new capabilities over time.
Please
ensure you select the correct module version for the version of Merchant
you have.
MIVA Merchant (© 2002 MIVA Corp.), Google
(© 2002 Google), and MS Excel (© 2003 Microsoft
Corporation) are copyright by their respective owners.
FroogleTM is a trademark of Google (© 2002 Google).
Steps
Submit request to FroogleTM for acceptance
into the program
INFO
Install this module and run it
Once accepted, upload resulting (username).txt flat file to FroogleTM through their Google Base panel. Make sure to select feed type as "Products"
Check your pages in FroogleTM when they show up
Froogle no longer uses a fixed basic feed, so this module
is discontinued. Take a look at our
Template Data Feed. It can create data feeds in just about any order the specification requires and allows more than the basic feed fields.
Online overview
and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules.
| Screen shot showing configuration in admin |
| Screen shot showing screen to run the export |
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Average Customer Rating
  
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Number of Raters: 3
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Reviewer: Angel in Miami, United States 06/28/2006
Excellent software....
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Reviewer: Andrew in Devon, Canada 06/19/2004
Easiest way to create and upload entire inventory into Froogle's system.
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