33 replies to this topic

[linux_lover]

I am intregued with Froogle - I have not done anything (expect pracise good SEO) and loads of my products are listed high up!

Fluke?

[Jill]

Fluke?

No. It's not necessary to do anything with Froogle, only if you want to. They do spider sites on their own.

[ephricon]

By adding a tracking code to your froogle listings (and other shopping sites) you should be able to measure your sales through each channel, and product, just like you can with PPC advertising.

Yes in fact I'd say this is essential. For about the first week one of my sites was in Froogle I for some reason felt funny about the sales stats we were tying to Froogle. We were measuring basically by sales attributed to the froogle.google.com referrer. Boy was that a mistake!

We then appended the URLs of all our pages that were submitted to Froogle and found that are sales via Froogle were 3 times what we had thought. The culprit? Two-fold. First, sometimes froogle searches stem from the google.com/froogle URL, different than the first one I mentioned. Second, sometimes Google will list 3 Froogle results on the regular Google SERPs pages, right between the top ads and the "top" organic results - prime real estate on the SERPs pages! Don't ask me how or why, but our listings get in that top 3 pretty routinely and that alone seems to be driving more traffic than all sales from people who specifically went to search on Froogle.

[Jill]

Good info ephricon!

[johnnyd]

Interesting info regarding Froogle. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed any changes in the last month or so? Most of my company's product was listed on Froogle before I went on vacation (courtesy of their webbot) but now there's absolutely nothing on Froogle from our company.

A number of our competitors remain listed on Froogle but I've also noticed a number of our other competitors are no longer listed as well.
We've not made any changes that should warrant delisting from Froogle...

In the last few days I've been trying to upload a feed with tracking URL's to Froogle but they've not yet processed the feed. Any ideas on how long it should take?

I'm hoping that any information gathered from Froogle might help us make the decision as to whether or not to bother listing product on other shopping comparison sites.

Any thoughts, feedback would be appreciated.

[wjcampbe]

First time I did a Froogle feed took about 4 weeks to get approval. Since then it takes around six hours to process an updated feed. I think only once it took 48 hours.

Not seeing a lot of traffic from this though. More coming from standard search, and the few backlinks acquired so far.

[johnnyd]

Thanks for the feedback wjcampbe.
Good news is, they've processed the feed this morning, bad news is I botched the file format, will re-load and hope it goes as quickly this time...

I don't expect a tremendous amount of traffic, but any traffic we do get from Froogle at the moment is coming through adwords campaign, thus costing money. Would prefer free traffic and be able to track...

[fpm_ie]

Hi there,

More questions from a newbie....

I was interested in froogle a while back, but noticed that they specified the feed must be in US$. I disregarded it then, but I've only recently found froogle UK. The feed policy there still states US$, but this can't be right, as all the products on froogle UK are priced in GB£??

I presume that GB£ are the correct currency to be using in Froogle UK...

Sounds like a daft question, I know.....

Thanks
FP

[goldjake]

i really like froogle and i have gotten a lot of sales off of froogle. I keyword spam a little bit but froogle has been very good to me.

[goldjake]

if you can put up all of your listings on froogle(eccomerse sites) you will get a wide variety of hits. YOu have to use froogle the same way you used metatags on your website. Just a suggestions

[goldjake]

i love froogle. I am getting about 40 hits a day from froogl and my site is not totally optimized. of course i am the manufacturer and i have the best price on the internet. THe new froogle looks a little weird but i am little nervous about the two clicks to get to the ad idea.

[spotlightdvd.com]

Froogle is great but confusing. I have a daily feed and a standard format. Some of my items are grouped with others (under the "Compare ## Prices" buttons that Froogle is now using more frequently) and other listings are on their own. I can't make any sense of how Froogle determines how to group products.

Most DVDs have multiple listings for the same title, multiple groups for the same title, and some are incorrectly grouped or labelled. Has anyone figured out the methodology at work here? Also, how big a role does PageRank play (if any) in how high up on the search results you place?

Thanks!

[respree]

My experience is that it really doesn't shoot more than a couple of click throughs to my site per week, and I havn't seen any conversions from the traffic.

Froogle works wonderfully for me.

I'd go back to your datafeed and reassess your titles and description to see what you can do to improve your clickthrough rates.

Let's look at one of your listings (see attachment).

I believe you've misspelt 'custom'. The Froogle search engine is going to be brutally unforgiving of this. I'd also recommend putting an actual image of the product instead of a generic one like this. The exclamations (!) in your product description are likely causing people to breeze right past you onto the next similar listing. Take out the hype the speak to your audience sincerely. Describe the product.

Edited by respree, 10 November 2005 - 09:40 PM.

[RedConvertible6]

I love froogle and have been getting about 16% conversions on it...

Honestly, it beats the crap out of my overture PPCs... and this ones FREE!


I am sending them my feed (5000) products, but I noticed that some products list well and some products don't.

Any ideas?

There was a response before about letting froogle figure out the title by itself..

Do you mean leave the name field blank? Has anyone tried this? Does it work better?

[RGB]

I used Froogle a long time back when it, but got iffy merchants. Since then I've used shopping.com for all my buying needs since I could tell which merchants were certified or not. Now I've noticed that froogle does have user reviews. I might be using froogle from now on.