Shopping Engines

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Hello all,

I'm new to the forum and so far the knowledge here seems staggering! :)

I have a few beginner's questions of my own. Our company is planning on starting listing products on various shopping engines like Yahoo Shopping etc. My question was two-fold:

1. Which, in your experiences, are the better converting shopping engines?

2. Are there any tools available to manage the bidding/general management (not feed management) on these shopping engines?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies!

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I met with one of the top 3 feed mgmt firms last week, and they said that the CSE's convert (from best to worst):

Yahoo Shopping (but least volume of top 4)
Shopzilla/Bizrate
Shopping.com
Nextag

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Thanks for your reply Shorebreak.

Does the feed mgmt firm you mention provide any other type of management (bids or otherwise) for shopping engines? We can create our own feeds pretty easily, so we're looking for a tool that can offer something more.

Also, as a sidebar, since you're affiliated with Efficient Frontier, are they planning on coming out with anyting in the near future for shopping engines? I'd love to see that take place!

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I'd throw Pricegrabber into this mix as well - decent traffic and acceptable conversions, i'd place them higher than Nextag but lower than shopping.com or Bizrate(shopzilla).

PriceSCAN and Pricesort are also worth looking at as up and comers.