Ebay Listings In Froogle

What's the Trick?

[elklabone]

I see Ebay listings at the top of SERP's for our given term. I've looked around a little bit but I'm not sure what the trick is to show up there.

Any ideas?

--Mark

[brakthepoet]

Exporting a File of Your Listings [pages.ebay.com]

1. On the Manage Your Store page, click on the "Export your listings" link.
2. Click the option labeled "Make a file of my Store Inventory listings available"
3. Click the Save Settings button.

You'll have to go through the normal Froogle routine after that for approval, username, etc. Note that it's for store items only and doesn't apply to auctions for fixed price items.

[sabai]

I think you could include auction items too, so long as they have a 'buy it now' button...

Froogle does not accept the following types of products

* Auction items, unless they have a 'Buy It Now' price that remains fixed throughout an auction

[cg89118]

I have a lot of top listings in froogle but it doesnt do me too much good to be honest. The trick is to submit it and once you get approved post post post post post. Keep submitting. I sell product that have dates on them so I have an advantage I can submit 100 different listings for each day. They only show the first couple listings on google when they do show it. I have found the traffic to be very limited and not worth the time or effort that I put into it.

[thaedge]

I was going to do that myself sabai, but I finished the real site and its easier to output and grab data from a query that I write.... also cheaper without the Ebay fees. :)

May still look for a quick and dirty parser for the xml that ebay spits out for possible future projects. If anyone knows of a quick and dirty tool thats already build give me a shout.

[elklabone]

I was under the impression that Froogle could automatically pick up ebay store listings at a fixed price, is that not accurate?

--Mark

[thaedge]

Of some 50 or 60 items (not sure how many are buy it now/fixed price) Froogle has found 15 or so items on its own from an Ebay Store