X-Cart Froogle Data Feed is X-Cart contribution which helps exporting your products to Froogle.com engine - one of the most popular free product catalog.
Google has rebranded "Froogle" as "Google Product Search"
Now, Google Product Search will still be a site for searching shopping listings only, but the most relevant listings in Product Search will also appear in the main search site in a "one-box" area above the organic results, which are the most relevant unpaid search listings. The one-box area snags results from other specialized Google search sites, like Google News.
Google Product Search also will boost awareness of Google Checkout online payment service by allowing searchers to set the results to display only items from merchants that offer a Google Checkout option.
Read at CNet News
We strongly recommend that you use Google Base Data Feed because of recent changes to Froogle
Some of the important benefits of listing in Froogle are:
Google's worldwide user base performs more than 150 million searches a day.
Inclusion in Froogle is absolutely free.
Advertising in Froogle is cost effective. Listing your products in Froogle is a MUST-DO free way to market to thousands of customers.
Each feed includes product details such as name, description, photo, URL and price.
Main features:
easy to use and configure
multilanguage support
multicurrency support
ability to export only selected categories
ability to include/exclude products marked "out of stock"
ability to include/exclude products with zero quantity
capability to include/exclude products with zero price
capability to strip HTML from Product Names
capability to strip HTML from Product Descriptions
capability to set default shipping cost
ability to limit number of products exported
ability to set currency that is used during export
ability to customize name of the export file
inline text recommendations for fast initial configuration
ability to automatically upload feed via FTP
ability to send feed via email
third party sales channel tracking (Google Analytics, WebTrends, OneStat, 123LogAnalyzer, Netmining etc)
optional GZIP compression of feed contents
additional Live Product Feed URL options
ability to validate feeds (XML-based feeds only)
ability to store feed on your server
exported products filtering by name, quantity, model, price etc
ability to append additional info like price, manufacturer to exported product name
multiple export configurations
preconfigured Google Analytics support
supports most of standard-compliant SEO-friendly URL modules/addons
Click Tracking / ROI Tracking
online documentation and Quick Start instructions and more
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x-Cart Froogle Data Feed Version: 12.1.9 - Added memory limit in export script
- Added timeout warning in admin section for large Stores
- Improved support for special price in GetpriceCSVfile
- Added validation of export fields in Custom Data Feeds
- Set direct URL of product images in eDirectoryand Shopzilla Export
Aug 31, 2009
x-Cart Froogle Data Feed Version: 11.9.5 - Improved support for server content encodings
- Added output cleaning in export tracker
- Added taxonomy in Google Base export feeds - used in Product Type field
- Added processing of SKU value before export in Google Base feed
- Added export of product attributes in Advanced XML export feed
- Added product variations export in Advanced XML export feed
- Improved new version check
Mar 30, 2009
x-Cart Froogle Data Feed Version: 10.7.6 - Minor improvements in export feeds
- Minor improvements in Custom Data Feed
- Added support of DHTML menu
- Added product variations export in Yahooexport feeds
- Added export of Stock Description value in Shopping.com export feed
- Minor improvements with decimal places in some taxed product prices
- Added memory limit checking
Feb 09, 2009
x-Cart Froogle Data Feed Version: 10.6.7 - Added support of variations export in Custom Data Feed
- Improved HTML special characters converted to entities in product links in Custom Data Feed
