OMG CyberMonday’s almost here & we’re not on Google Product Search!

18. November 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Comparison Shopping Engines, CSEManagement.com News, Data Feed Optimization, Google Base, Google Merchant Center, Google Product Search · Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Good Afternoon Comparison Shopping Engine Marketers!!

Thanksgiving is officially one week away! I don’t know about you, but I can not wait to have the whole family together, all gathered around a tale full of amazing home made dishes! I get hungry just thinking about it!!

With Thanksgiving being only one week away, that also means that the biggest retail shopping day of the year, Black Friday, is only eight (8) days away! This also means that the biggest online shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday, is only eleven (11) days away!

Which bring me to the title of this post which just so happens to be the title of an e-mail I received from one of my readers yesterday lol! She was worried that it was too late to get her website’s products on Google Product Search.

After I received that e-mail I decided to write up a step by step guide on getting your products on Google Product Search. This also prompted me to create a whole new section on the site titled “CSE Setup Guides”. You can find this section on the right of the site above the Recent Posts header.

So here it is my faithful readers, the guide to get your products on Google Product Search in time for Cyber Monday!

http://www.csemanagement.com/google-merchant-center-setup-guide/

It’s time to kick off the holiday season! Lets get this party started… right!
CSE.Manager@gmail.com

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Shopping Engines and Duplicate Content

06. July 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Comparison Shopping Engines, theFind · Tags: , , , , ,

Lately, there has been a lot of speculation and out right fear of duplicate content penalties on your organic rankings if a comparison shopping engine is also displaying your content. The idea behind this is that if Google sees your content on let say thefind.com (which has been getting the most heat for this as it has started to surpass the actual merchant site in the search results) will they penalize your actual website and cause you to down rank.

I started searching for answers on this after reading a post on the Y Store Forums. It was not long after that when I found a post from the guys over at Solid Cactus on the FeedPerfect Blog. The blog post references a discussion with thefind.com themselves and goes on to explain in detail what is actually happening (that the merchants are being penalized, but due to the changes to the search algorithm that Google has made, thefind.com and other sites are ranking higher because they are being deemed “more credible sources “).

The post is a good read and I suggest it to anyone out there who has been “terrorized” by this duplicate content rumor.

http://blog.feedperfect.com/2010/07/does-the-find-create-duplicate-content-issues-for-merchants-in-organic-search-engines/

Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend…

…now get back to work!

:-) CSE.Manager@gmail.com

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