VersaFeed PriceWatch
OverviewVersaFeed PriceWatch monitors your product prices compared to other vendors on the web. Using this information, PriceWatch enables clients to adjust their advertising strategies accordingly.
Have the lowest price on a popular product? Use PriceWatch to increase bids to maximize exposure. Alternatively, is a product not priced competitively? Use PriceWatch to remove products or lower bids to save costs.
TechnicalPriceWatch monitors pricing over 24 hour periods and enables merchants to use this data in two ...
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Importing Additional Product Data with Supplemental Files
When creating optimized product feeds you will often receive additional "supplemental" file data in Excel or CSV that is separate from your product source feed. This supplemental data might contain GTINs, optimized titles, cost-of-goods data — anything really.
VersaFeed's Supplemental Files feature allows users to seamlessly import the new data and integrate it into your product feeds. The supplemental file might be a one-time file that will not change. Or, it might be data hosted ...
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Don't Spend Full Daily Budget in Google Shopping
If you're a SMB, you often don't have a lot of time to figure out the optimum bids for your products. However, there is one big mistake that you do want to avoid: do NOT bid so high as to spend your entire campaign budget each day.
For example, let's say you sell guitars and you're willing to spend $100/day on Google Shopping. Let's also assume that you've ...
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Migrating From Google Shopping Manager (GSM) to Google Shopping Campaigns (GSC)
Google has re-launched Product Listing Ads with their recently announced Google Shopping Campaigns (GSC). This article details how GSM users can migrate their existing GSM campaign to GSC and mange GSC with feed modifications moving forward.
Some important notes before we get started:
Google will sunset the current PLA architecture in late August 2014. At that point, Google will transition merchants to GSC via an automated and potentially error prone method. Users should manually switch ...
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Bing Product Ads Creation and Configuration
On 3/26/14 Bing announced that Product Ads (Bing's equivalent to Google Product Listing Ads) are now available to all U.S. retailers. This is great news! The steps below will guide the configuration process needed to launch. NOTE: For additional help Bing has created a 3 part video series here:
Create a Merchant Center StoreUpload Your Product CatalogCreate a Product Ads Campaign
General Login
1.Login to Bing Ads by visiting this ...
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Google Shopping Campaigns: Overview
Google Shopping Campaigns (GSC) are a new way to list merchants' product inventory on Google Shopping and Google Product Listing Ads. The overall architecture of the system is still very similar: merchants send inventory feeds to Google, create an AdWords campaign that specifies bids/budgets, monitor results, and adjust bids/budgets as needed.
Auto targets > SubdivisionsGSC changes how you create the AdWords campaign to set bids/budgets on your items. Instead of auto targets and ...
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Google Shopping Manager Overview
Google Shopping Manager, or GSM, is VersaFeed's online software toolset that enables retailers to easily list their inventory on Google Shopping and Google Product Listing Ads. VersaFeed manages the technical details so merchants can make straightforward executive decisions on budgets and bidding.
Watch the screencast below of Google Shopping Manager Overview:
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GSM consists of 3 main parts:
Data Feed CreationBid ManagementReporting & AnalysisLet's take a look at ...
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Bidding Strategies for PPC Shopping Engines
Bidding strategies are important for PPC (pay-per-click) shopping engines. All major shopping engines (with the exception of Google Product Search and Bing Shopping) are PPC, and most allow for a variable bid. To be successful on sites like Shopzilla, PriceGrabber, Amazon Product Ads, and NexTag, you must have a competent bidding strategy.
There are two important tasks to consider:
Initial bidding strategyOngoing bidding strategiesInitial Bidding Strategy
Don't list your inexpensive products.For example, it ...