Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)How do I optimize my data feed(s)? Our data feeds work immediately up being set up. We push your Yahoo store data to your recipient comparison shopping engines who list your items in their engines. To optimize your product data for general search and in the comparison shopping engines, we have a helpful article at https://dashboard.feedwizards.com/articles/google/products/optimization. This article addresses Google feeds specifically, but the theory carries forward to most search engines and comparison shopping engines. How do I check to see what my current charges are for my feeds? You can easily view your charges for your feeds by logging into your Feed Wizards dashboard. The Feed Wizards dashboard shows the current monthly amount for your data feed service...whatever services and feeds you have set up currently. This changes every time you add or delete feeds or services. Log into your Feed Wizards dashboard at https://dashboard.feedwizards.com/ Once logged in, if you click on the link ???my stores" in the upper left of the screen, you will see your store. Clicking on the link/name of your store will show you all the services and data feeds set up on the store. There is a "billing" button you can click on to get a breakdown of the charges for the month as well. Why is it important to have shopping feeds? In this economy, shoppers are looking for the best deals. Shopping engines have specific areas where Yahoo! stores can market themselves using promotions, coupons and free shipping offers. Merchants who use these features can be separated out from a crowded marketplace. Shopping search engines are influenced by feeds that are regularly updated. Also, the shopping experience and overall satisfaction will be greater if the feed has accurate product information. Shopping feeds are a valuable part of an online merchant???s overall marketing effort. It is important to note that shopping feeds, along with email, search engine optimization and social media make up a solid marketing plan. I only need one data feed, is a Feed Wizards service available for this? How do I add data feeds using the Feed Wizards Dashboard?
How do I send my data feeds using the Feed Wizards Dashboard?
How do I exclude (or include) products into my Yahoo! Store Data Feed? Product Exclusion Rules:
By Default ALL items are included in a feed. If you'd rather that NO items are included and you instead want to submit a list of just the items to be sent, simply let the Feed Wizards know (send us your store and which feed) and we'll switch your feed so by default NOTHING will get sent until you add some. Product Inclusion Rules: In the feed wizards dashboard you can set up rules (most feeds have a few by default) that determine which products make it into your data feed. To see and modify the rules for any feed:
These directions can't go into every possible rule but basically any page that passes ALL rules may be included in the feed. You can add new rules, change rules, or even disable or delete rules (initial rules can be disabled but not deleted). You set each rule and depending on the rule, you may need to load up to 4 parameters. Simply save after adjusting and you're good to go. To manually add or remove products from a feed, for any items that pass the initial product rules:
Uploaded Item Blocks: If you have a lot of items to block from a feed, just create a text file with your item ids (one id per line) and you can upload it.
IMPORTANT: Be sure the exclusion list contains ALL the items you want to exclude from any particular feed. Our system replaces the list each time you upload so if you are sending small lists of exclusions, each submission is considered the complete list. I have many items in my store. How do I download the data or image files if the export file is very large? *See http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ for an Internet Download Manager that we use. From the publisher: "Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times, and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages..." It will also handle zipped or compressed files and looks to be a "life saver" for stores with large product counts. How do I view my data feeds using the Feed Wizards Dashboard?
By clicking the link it should open a feed file which you can open in Excel to organize the data into columns. How do I avoid duplicate content on shopping engines & affiliates using my feeds? The solution is to provide alternative content to each of the engines. In order for us to feed alternative content to the different services, you have a couple of choices:
For step 1, login to the dashboard.
@[email protected] is in stock and ready to ship from XYZ Company. We stock @[email protected] for @[email protected] and we guarantee your satisfaction. Basically our system will replace @[email protected] with the product name, @[email protected] with the price, and @[email protected] with the main section name. Now to apply it to any feed, go back to the My Stores list.
How does Yahoo assign a category?
Now your item will be re-categorized and your site's main CONTENTS page will automatically update. What if I lose my Feed Wizards Dashboard login information? Did you know you can get a boost for your best selling items on Become.com? Here's how... In the Stock Status column of your data feed you place the word ???HOT??? for your top 100 selling products. If you mark more than 100 products, Become.com's system will only give the boost to the first 100 it accesses, and all others will be marked as ???In Stock???. Become.com assumes all ???HOT??? products are In Stock, so please do not mark Out of Stock items as "HOT". Become.com also recommends that you only mark top selling items, as they will be preferred over all others. Marking products that you want to sell but which do not have the market demand will cause those products to receive additional traffic that may not convert and, in fact, negatively impact your campaign. Contact Your Store Wizards to make adjustments to your Become.com feed to display your "HOT" sellers. How often is my store data backed up? How do I enable my Yahoo Store export files?
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/store/promote/tools/tools-97.html Can I include data from my custom properties in my feeds? If you populate custom properties in your Yahoo store, please let us know the exact names of the properties and their "type" and we can retrieve that data for use in your data feeds. Many custom fields will automatically get downloaded if you have Catalog Manager and have enabled the catalog.xml file. Some custom properties that aren't part of the item type, or that are of certain types (references, ids, symbol), we must manually add to our export pages to retrieve. How do I remove a feed in the Feed Wizards dashboard?
A window will pop-up for reason of removal, and click the "Save changes" button to remove the service Feed Wizards sign up - How do I get started? To get started, you can visit the link below to sign up for our Feed Wizards data feed service. The Feed Wizards data feed service helps you post your Yahoo store products on Google Shopping and other major comparison shopping engines. http://www.feedwizards.com/index.php. Just click on the "Free trial signup" button. You will be asked to set up an account with us. Afterward, one of our feed specialists will contact you. We can establish the feed for you and send it up regularly to your Google merchant account for Google to pick up so Google can post your items onto google.com and google.com/shopping. Please note Google now charges you to list your products and requires you set up Product Listing Ads. Directions are here: https://dashboard.feedwizards.com/google/product/listing/ads How can I promote my inventory? Product Listing With Product Listing Ads you're charged only if someone clicks on your ad and lands on your website. You only pay when Google directs a customer to your store. Start your campaign To create Product Listing Ads, you???ll need an AdWords m Become.com: In the Stock Status column of your data feed you place the word ???HOT??? for your top 100 selling products. If you mark more than 100 products, Become.com's system will only give the boost to the first 100 it accesses, and all others will be marked as ???In Stock???. Become.com assumes all ???HOT??? products are In Stock, so please do not mark Out of Stock items as "HOT". Become.com also recommends that you only mark top selling items, as they will be preferred over all others. Marking products that you want to sell but which do not have the market demand will cause those products to receive additional traffic that may not convert and, in fact, negatively impact your campaign. Contact Your Store Wizards to make adjustments to your Become.com feed to display your "HOT" sellers. How often is my store data backed up? How do I enable my Yahoo Store export files? http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/store/promote/tools/tools... Can I include data from my custom properties in my feeds? If you populate custom properties in your Yahoo store, please let us know the exact names of the properties and their "type" and we can retrieve that data for use in your data feeds. Many custom fields will automatically get downloaded if you have Catalog Manager and have enabled the catalog.xml file. Some custom properties that aren't part of the item type, or that are of certain types (references, ids, symbol), we must manually add to our export pages to retrieve. How do I remove a feed in the Feed Wizards dashboard? A window will pop-up for reason of removal, and click the "Save changes" button to remove the service Feed Wizards sign up - How do I get started? To get started, you can visit the link below to sign up for our Feed Wizards data feed service. The Feed Wizards data feed service helps you post your Yahoo store products on Google Shopping and other major comparison shopping engines. http://www.feedwizards.com/index.php. Just click on the "Free trial signup" button. You will be asked to set up an account with us. Afterward, one of our feed specialists will contact you. We can establish the feed for you and send it up regularly to your Google merchant account for Google to pick up so Google can post your items onto google.com and google.com/shopping. Please note Google now charges you to list your products and requires you set up Product Listing Ads. Directions are here: https://dashboard.feedwizards.com/google/product/listing/ads How can I promote my inventory? Product Listing With Product Listing Ads you're charged only if someone clicks on your ad and lands on your website. You only pay when Google directs a customer to your store. Start your campaign To create Product Listing Ads, you???ll need an AdWords
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