osCommerce Froogle Data Feed is osCommerce 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
Outstanding effort. Hired them to handle some overflow work - Completed the job we needed within the ridiculous time frame we outlined. Ultimately finished it to our specifications and made our clients happy. Couldn't have asked for more - highly recommended - thanks guys!
Jan 16, 2008
The data feed capabilities added to our osCommerce powered site have enhanced our business tremendously - highly recommended.
Great products. I've purchased the 5-in-1 feed for several of my clients and the Google feed for another of my clients and all are very impressed with the ease of use once installed.
osCommerce 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
osCommerce 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
osCommerce Froogle Data Feed Version: 10.7.6 - Minor improvements in Zen Cart export feeds;
- Minor improvements in Custom Data Feed;
- Added support of DHTML menu CRE Loaded6.3;
- Added product variations export in Yahoo exportfeeds;
- 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
osCommerce 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
osCommerce Froogle Data Feed Version: 9.8.9 - Added ability to export all product database fields in Advanced XML Export
- Improved notifications when product database fields are empty in Custom and Advanced XML Export
- Improved Sales Channel Analysisof additional export packages: Amazonand Affiliateexport
- Added Custom Data Feed
- Improved generation of product database fields in Custom and Advanced XML Export
- Added ability to export all product database fields in Advanced XML Export
- Improved converting of non-acceptable characters in Google BaseRSS feed
- Removed `Beta` from feed titles
- Added MyShopping export feed
- Weight values export improved
- Added support of X-Cart Extra Fields
- Improved export of product descriptions in XMLformat to Google Base
- Improved Admin Box: added support of shopping carts on servers with disabled register_globals
- Removed ShareASaletaxonomy from All-in-One package
Nov 02, 2008
osCommerce Froogle Data Feed Version: 9.4.2 - Removed links on 2Checkout and ShareASale export feedsfrom admin box for X-Cart
- Improved Export Categories dropdown: added horizontal scrolling
- Added restriction on category list in module admin pages - if more than 10000 categories in store, only top level categories will be displayed
Oct 27, 2008
osCommerce Froogle Data Feed Version: 9.2.0 - Improved compatibility with Power SEO module:declaration of UTF-8 functions
- Added Tax field to Google Base export feed
- Optimized Google Base feed - removed generation of category tree
- Moved UTF-8 library to libs folder
