Froogle, Google's Shopping Search Engine
Fast Data Feed Module
for Miva Merchant Store Owners
Get included in Google's Shopping Search Engine, Froogle, for Free!
Although Google still says its Froogle shopping engine is still in beta, Miva Merchant store owners have been receiving sales from it for quite some time. While people pay Google every time someone clicks on their pay per click ads, Froogle listings cost you nothing. They either appear just below the top two ads and sometimes at the very top.
It is pretty easy to get your products listed in Google. Do the following:
Upload your product data feed either through the ftp information received when signing up or through the upload utility in your Froogle admin.
Something else you might consider is tracking the sales from froogle. The following three modules will do a great job of this.
Affiliate Manager from Viking Coders - The best affiliate module for Miva Merchant is also great at tracking visits and sales from places like froogle, newsletters, and more. You can also associate customers with affiliates. If you tell it to associate the froogle affiliate with all orders from customers who purchase from those links, you could track the lifetime value. Wouldn't that be amazing if you found out that one customer had bought over $5000 in their lifetime just from clicking on your froogle link?
ELM 2 from Viking Coders - This handy-dandy statistics module will show you how many visitors and orders come from froogle.google.com versus other domains.
Qwktracker from 4thebest.net - This robust tracking module will work with froogle, overture, and google adwords among other things.
Every single Miva Merchant store owner should take advantage of Froogle. Get your products listed today.
