Getting Started:

1. You’ll have to create a merchant account at Shopzilla.com. This account creation/registration is absolutely free and there are no obligations at all whatsoever.
   
   
2. You’ll have to pay fully refundable deposit of 50$ to get started with your account. This is the fund for running your account and providing services. This amount is also applied to cost per click leads that you’ll generate from your product listings.
   
   
3. Using easy to use product listing manager tool submit your product listings to shopzilla.com.
   
   

Business Services :

Shopzilla’s business service website has all the tools and resources necessary for merchants for succeeding in the shopping search engine program :

1. The bidding tools allow you to set the Pay-Per-Click value. You’ll have to pay this amount every time a user clicks on your ad and is directed to your site.
   
   
2. Make use of list management tools to manage and edit your search engine product listings.
   
   
3. To track the performance of your participation in the site’s listing program make use of reporting tools.
   
   

Merchant Registration :

Registration is absolutely free at shopzilla.com. It allows you to:

1. List your website in its directories of online stores absolutely Free.


2. Participate in Customer Certified Ratings, and Review programs for free


3. Access Merchant Services Website for free.


4. Participate in their Cost-Per-Click Merchant Listings Program.

Selling at Shopzilla :

Shopzilla is nothing but a network of online shopping search engines owned by Scripps Network Interactive. It connects online shoppers with variety of products and thousands of retail merchants from around the world. This network includes Shopzilla, Bizrate, Beso, PrixMoinsCher, and SparDeinGeld brands. Shopzilla receives more than 40 million online shoppers every month. Any merchant who owns a website that sells products can register with shopzilla and list their products in its networks as well. The setting up of Shopping Merchant Account is absolutely free and all you’ll ever have o do is pay for leads based on Pay-Per-Click value you had set earlier during registration. This means that you’ll pay only when shopper clicks on listings from the merchant in Shopzilla.

Guidelines for selling :

1. Go to Shopzilla.com after you open your browser and get to the registration webpage. You can find the link the website in the resources section of this article.
   
   
2. Choose any of the Shopzilla website to list your products. Click Next. Give the URL of your website in the following window and click Next, Enter requested information including your name, address, phone, email, desired username and its password to create your account. Click next and verify your information before submitting for the creation of your account.
   
   
3. You’ll receive an activation mail for gaining access to your account at Shopzilla. Open your email account and this particular activation mail and click on the link provided within it for activating your Shopzilla account.
   
   
4. Get to Shopzilla Business Services Page. You can find this particular link in our resources section of this article. Enter your username and password and click “login” to get inside your account.
   
   
5. Give your credit card information. Shopzilla prompts for credit card details when new users log in to their accounts for the first time. Choose an amount that needs to fund your account for using the services provided by Shopzilla. The minimum deposit is 50$.
   
   
6. Click “New Products” and enter product information for the products you wish to sell at Shopzilla categories. You’ll have to enter name of your product, product details, its price and a link to the product in your website. You can also opt to provide image details for your product. Once your are done with product information, enter the amount you want to pay every time a lead is generated which is essentially structured based on pay-per-click concept. The money for the click is deducted from your account directly every time a lead is generated when a shopper clicks on your product at shopzilla.com.

Getting Paid:

Shopzilla had a Publisher Program where all the earnings of a merchant are collected. The Publisher can opt to cash out their earnings as soon as Publisher hits an appropriate amount after which he/she can request for a payout via cheque or PayPal. Established Publishers think that sky is the limit when it comes to this appropriate amount while other retailers feel that this amount is a reasonable target for aspiring publishers to take more efforts in trying to sell their goods.

Earnings:

Apart from Shopzilla’s Publisher Program which is quite lucrative, you can choose to promote this program as an affiliate. Shopzilla pays you well for making good business with affiliates. You can end up earning up to 25$ for every account that signs in under your ID. This particular program is developing nicely, and thus you are sure to make more profits for developing your business. You are sure to get several referrals for the first week itself when you promote the affiliate link. Earning will never become easier and profits will pile up as you put these affiliate links in your blogs, forums and other newsletters.

User Placement ID:

Placement ID’s are available for you from Publisher Program that allows you to track the effectiveness of your chosen assets, or their placement on your website. You can use this ID at several parts of your website to monitor your earnings on a more refined level.

About the use of Placement IDs :

1. Placement ID is a must for every retailer. Without which the traffic for your site cannot be tracked and you will end up not being paid.
   
   
2. The default ID is 1. If you do not wish to take advantage of placement ID’s, you can choose to use default ID for all of your assets.
   
   
3. Placements ID’s must be a positive integer. No zero, negatives, decimals, and characters are accepted. If in case you make use of special characters in your ID, your ID will be marked as “Placement ID 0” and your traffic will not be monitored and you will not be paid under such a scenario.
   
   
4. Placement ID’s can be assigned a value ranging from 1-99 and this is reported in the Shopzilla Publisher Portal Reporting. If in case you use any number beyond 99, it will be classified as “Other”. If you require broken out reporting for a Placement ID’s above 99, you’ll have to contact Shopzilla Publisher Team for customer support services.
   
   
5. Placement ID cannot have a value more than 999999999. Above 9 digits, your placement ID will be converted to “Placement ID 0”which implies that your traffic for your site will not be tracked and you will not be paid consequently.
   
   

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