ABOUT BING SHOPPING FEEDS

About Bing Shopping Services


Bing Shopping also formerly known as MSN shopping is a comparison shopping site. It helps consumers to search for products they seek for and purchase them with best deals. It is a part of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It is specifically designed and customized for finding products available for sale on web. The search engine provides result sets comprising of information such as product images, pricing and description. These products are indexed by crawling through the web and extracting rich Meta data from web pages.

 

Bing Shopping Feeds

 

It enables online shoppers to get a discount while they make a purchase after clicking your advertisement. Bing Shopping icon appears next to the advertisements that are associated with the program. It benefits advertisers by providing attractive and luring incentives for online shoppers to buy products.

 

CashBack Program :

This program was a rebate program launched on May 22nd 2008. It allowed users to search for specific products from multiple retailers/merchants and purchase the same via best deals and offering money back for purchases made through the site. This particular service was started way back in June 2006 as a part of jellyfish.com. On October 2nd 2007 Microsoft purchased the website at a price of 150$ million. They intended to use this search engine as part of their Live Search services to catch up with Google. It was officially integrated with Bing in May 22nd 2008. Bing started using this feature to help its users to receive cashbacks instantly and not wait for 60 days. This feature worked in conjunction with eBay.

On April 14th 2009 Microsoft merged CashBack with live search products and in the same year as of June 3rd as a part of rebranding the feature was renamed as “Bing CashBack”. As of June 4th 2010 Microsoft withdrew this feature due to lack of interest and other losses and it officially went out on July 30th 2010.

 

Generating Bing Shopping Data Feed :

  1. Feed Requirements : Data feeds generated by ProductCart must meet the Bing Shopping data feed requirements as of September 2010.

  2. Must Do : You ought to FTP an updated data feed every 30 days or less. ProductCart does not update it automatically. This is something that is quite mandatory. Must upload a new data feed whenever product information changes. The filename should always be saved as “bingshopping.txt”.

  3. Delay :

    1. For the new information to be reflected upon to the site, it might take some time (Usually up to 48 hours).

    2. The first feed you send will take longer time to process than the ones you send in the future for using our services.

  4. Format : ProductCart uses formatting requirements automatically. However, keep them in mind while you decide to edit the data feed manually.

    1. Header row is a must.

    2. Each line can contain only one product for listing.

    3. TAB- delimited

    4. Character Set/Encoding: UTF-8.

 

The package lists the products based on its item type rather than the manufacturer or model type. This serves to be a great marketing tool if your product is quite unique from that of your competitor’s product. Search Engine Genie certainly makes it a unique shopping experience and business experience. contact Search Engine Genie at webpromotions@gmail.com or Submit our Shopping Feed Request Quote We do your job easily and efficiently giving you a greater performance and professional experience.

 

 

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