mona - 7:54 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the post, pmac, very nice.

>> The category that Froogle places your product into plays a significant role.
Yes, I will *speculatively* agree.

One: If you search within a category and your site/products are not in that category, your products will not be appear in a search.

Two: In a regular froogle search, I think it does play a role in ranking. I recently had my products changed to a different category because we weren't showing up within searches in that category. After the category change, not only are we listed in searches within that category, our ranking improved for KW phrases in the regular search. No other changes were made besides the category change.

I have more specualtion to contribute, I'll get it organized and do so soon.

Added: pmac - It looks like this forum is going to need a moderator soon. Any chance that you're considering it;)?