2008-05-15T15:22:05-07:00 Practical Ecommerce info@practicalecommerce.com http://www.practicalecommerce.com/ Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing DBA Practical Ecommerce http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10656 2008-05-15T15:22:05-07:00

Best I have found is shopzilla, I had to chargeback my money on shopping.com because of the poor service not to mention they require like 1k just to start.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10576 2008-05-14T21:00:00-07:00

I second the mention of Google Base, which is free and incredibly simple to use. It sure is nice to see your store's products at the top of the search results without having to spend a penny.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10540 2008-05-14T10:11:45-07:00

I have heard good things about Jellyfish.com (pay-per-order), but have not tried it yet. They were recently bought by Microsoft, so they think it's a good site and concept.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10506 2008-05-14T00:30:05-07:00

We have had good support from Shopzilla. We see much increased traffic but not a proportionate amount of sales. I would like to hear more about the pay Per Order companies. Besides Amazon and Shop.com who else is there?

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10271 2008-05-10T09:10:14-07:00

I am in agreement with the shopping.com experience (or shall we say bad experience) as mentioned above. I found that as much as I tried, I could not get my listings placed in "sub categories" and they have been lost in the sea of other products. Tech requests are no help as they don't respond and modifying the sub categories through their site interface does not seem to solve the problem. About the $700 initial deposit, as of April 2008, I could not find anywhere in their online documentation that states it has to be a minimum amount and certainly not $700 minimum. I set up my account with $100 to start and when I called to activate, I told the rep this and they said, fine and set up the account. You might try this, if you really want to be listed on this not so good site, until they post their official policy in words. Their explanation for requiring the $700?.... they said it is required to cover their costs for initiating a new account... uhhh isn't that a bit steep? I think...

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10221 2008-05-09T08:59:37-07:00

I started online a short while back. I placed my store (www.thenamehut.com) on Nextag, and it was an easy and cordial approach. Shopping.com, on the other hand, has a steep prepaid of $700.00 to start, no support phone number and, when I tried their forum to contact them (as per their instructions) I read the horror stories from many stores trying to get service or someone to just answer their multiple requests. Of course, Shopping.com went out of my list. Shopzilla has easy approach even if unflexible in the product list to submit: 1 format only (tab) with 15 specific columns. My advice: create one prodct table with all columns required (Nexttag, for instance) Create other tables for other sites as per their reqs, an copy-paste form the original table, column by column unto the new ones. You must create a directory in your web page for your images and upload them, so that you may include the URL in the corresponding column; and this should work for all te stores you subscribe.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10176 2008-05-08T15:47:44-07:00

We've been in the comparison engines a long time. PG charges a stiff sign up fee. Most of them raise their clickthru minimums 20-40% during "holiday" seasons. Each one tends to have a different market segment where they excell in so be sure your product fits their market. Nextag is more electronics than Shopping or MSN, (per their merchant service rep) so I probably wouldn't try to sell handbags there. You also need to have your items for sale in a well defined database upload file and must update them regularly or you will be delisted, so plan on giving them part of your day each week.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10167 2008-05-08T12:22:46-07:00

Other added benefits to shopping comparison site listings are customer feedback and positive reviews,. End of purchase surveys allow you ask your customer probing questions about your products, delivery, and customer support. My business, (Batteries4less.com) has developed very high ratings rotating these surveys which increases our click thru and conversion rates. When we recently joined Google products we found that all of our hard work paid off. Google has created a customer review page created from several shopping sites. We also promote the best responses as testimonials our our site.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10161 2008-05-08T10:01:47-07:00

I am very curious about the targeted advertising, I have been trying develop my traffic into conversions, i am fairly new at the ecommerce business and have been working on my site for over a year and finally got it launched. lots of traffic but no purchases. If anyone has an idea on how i can incorporate nextag into my site that would be great. My site is trucetalk.com

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/731/Shopping-Search-Engines-Six-To-Consider/#comment10156 2008-05-08T08:10:56-07:00

I do want to add that Shopping.com is the most difficult to work with from my experience. They lack technical support, do not get back to you after submitting tickets and performs the weakest out of the top five. Maybe it is because it is owned by eBay...not sure. Nextag, on the other hand has been the top perfomer. One that is not mentioned is Google Product Submit. It is free (no CPC) and performs pretty well.