Froogle Work

[lefteyewilly]

Anyone have any experience with uploading products to Froogle?

If so, any successes? or is it a waste of time?

[gerbick]

Never done it... but I swear the title said Fraggle Rock.

[random25]

I uploaded our motorcycle parts to froogle, then they were transfered to google base when that started, then they were transfered to the new google merchant center a few months ago.

It was really easy, I made our data feed in excel.
I have had no problems with the service at all.

We do get some traffic from it, but not much.

[jasonsplace]

We added it to one of our clients websites. It was really simple to set up a Google Base feed and it's doubled their sales.

[lefteyewilly]

^that's what i'm looking for.

[Googooboyy]

Anyone have any experience with uploading products to Froogle?

If so, any successes? or is it a waste of time?

Have there been bad experiences elsewhere?

[jasonsplace]

I should also mention that the site that we added it to is one that sales traffic signs and safety supplies. It has a very narrow target market. We had the site optimized to show up well on Google (top 1-5 position for most products) and the sales were still down. We added Google Base in May of this year and immediately saw orders start coming in. Since that point, 40-60% of all web orders have been referred by Google Product Search in some form or another. Unfortunately we don't have the statistics on phone orders but we know that they've increased dramatically as well.

[lefteyewilly]

great to hear jason. we're kinda in the same boat; specific market. I plan on getting something going within a week. I already have the base account, i just need to start managing the excel sheets.

[jasonsplace]

If you have an online shopping cart with a database then it's really simple to create a live feed. That's what we did. Google checks once a day for changes to the feed and updates accordingly. That way you never have to manage the Google account again.

[lefteyewilly]

i do have a cart with database...any info on creating a live feed? Is there any way to exclude certain products from the feed? There's certain products in the database that aren't priced for checkout for specific reasons, and not including them would be be clutch.

[jasonsplace]

I just wrote a script that queried the database and then outputted a tab deliminated table of all of the data. You can see the format of what it needs to be here: http://base.google.com/support/bin/a...er=58083&hl=en
Our particular feed it located here: http://interwestsafety.com/googlebase.php
You can have your script look at a flag in the database and not show products that you don't want to show up. Also, products with a price of $0.00 are already excluded by Google.