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I have Data Feeds....Now What?

I have Data Feeds....Now What?

         

thedeveloper

9:12 pm on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi All-

My collegue and I have been working endless hours to create datafeeds on our website. We've finally installed a Datafeed which has over 20,000 products. Now that we have these wonderful detailed pages, we need to figure out how to get people to them. My original plan
was to put the individual items on Google Adwords. But now I have a dilemma.....there are too many pages with huge descriptions and titles.
I really can't describe the items in the ads because of the character limitations and some of the titles of the products of repeated.This datafeed is updated daily and is ever changing, therefore my Google Adwords would have to be ever changing.....Daily?....With 20,000 products in just one feed?!@#$%#%

Does anyone have any other ideas of how I can use these datafeeds?
Loyalty Sites? Adwords? Search Engine Optimization? How are the successful datafeeders doing it?

Everyone's ideas and comments (no matter how trivial) would greatly
be appreciated!

~Cheers!

[edited by: eljefe3 at 4:25 am (utc) on Feb. 18, 2005]

rfung

5:00 am on Feb 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I'd set the site up, and work on getting in bound links to it so it gets indexed by the SE's. Once that happens, you'll find out that traffic WILL find you. Wether that converts to actual sales, that's another business alltogether.

If you're new to this whole thing, I wouldn't recommend doing PPC to your specific product pages, because chances are you won't know which products to pick - and to put all your feed in PPC will eat up a bunch of your budget if you don't know what you're doing. I'd say datafeed sites aren't usually tied with adwords to it, but that's just my take.

badone

12:01 am on Feb 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Where did you obtain your feed? Direct from the merchant or through a third party like CJ. How did you come across the merchant?

Just general answers are fine, no need to name names ;-)

Cheers,
BAD

rfung

12:20 am on Feb 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



check CJ - some merchants have a datafeed.

I just look for a merchant I'm interested in and then email them asking if they have a datafeed.

gopi

1:42 am on Feb 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



DF is a good tool to create targeted pages if you know how to avoid the dupe filter!

howiejs

4:17 am on Feb 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



What's a "DF is a good tool"

gopi

5:17 am on Feb 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I meant DataFeed is a good tool!

fclark

8:37 pm on Feb 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi TheDeveloper,

Have you heard that AdWords now has an API? Happened last week or so. You can automate your datafeed Ad creatives and bids.