Hello Comparison Shopping Engine merchants and marketers! It has been a long time since my last post and for that you have my deepest apologies! I did have a good reason for the hiatus however! I took some time off to help raise my newborn son! That’s right, CSE Manager is now a father!

The last few months have been the best that I have experienced! Even with all the late nights and long periods of time with no sleep I cant begin to describe the smile that my son brought to my face every time I laid my eyes on him!

On a side note, I am not sure how many of you caught the new comedy on NBC starring Christine Applegate and Will Arnette called Up All Night about a couple how is raising their first child but it is very funny and very very true! hahahaha!

Anyway, my time away from the workspace has ended and its time to get things rocking and rolling once again! A lot of changes are coming as we gear up for the holiday season and as always I will be covering all of them as they are announced.

I will also be going over a final review of the incoming enforcement of the new Google merchant center requirements which goes into affect in TWO DAYS! I hope that you have been reading up on the changes and know that Google moved their announcement blog.

The new blog is located at http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/. Google will no longer be posting to the old blog http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/ according to the final post on September 6th 2011

Here is the final post made on the Google merchant blog and a link to it on their site:

Thank you for reading!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 | 11:01 AM

As you may know, we recently launched the Google Commerce blog to share updates on all of the exciting things happening at Google in the shopping space. To simplify how we share information, we’ll begin posting all merchant-related updates to the Google Commerce blog, and this will be the last post to the Google Merchant blog. We encourage you to update your feeds and follow the Google Commerce blog to stay up to date on Google Product Search, Google Offers, Google Wallet, Google Catalogs for tablets, and more.

Posted by Lisa Coffey, Product Marketing Manager, Google Shopping

All the best
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