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Major shopping search engines
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RankUno Shopping Comparison Search Engine Marketing
Comparison Shopping Engines
Have you made comparison shopping sites (Froogle, Yahoo Shopping, Shopzilla, MSN Shopping, Shopping.com,
PriceGrabber, NexTag, CNET and others) integral part of your online marketing plan?
Believe it or not your customers are already using comparison search engines to simplify their
life and get the best bargain.
Not convinced? Consider following statistics:
Shopping comparison search market is growing at an aggressive rate of 30% YOY.
In the UK alone 14.9 million visitors logged on to comparison shopping in
February 2006. A year before, in February 2005, 11.5 million unique visitors visited comparison
engines. (And this is not even the holiday shopping season!!!)
Source: comScore Media Metrix & e-consultancy
Find below definition of important terms used in comparison shopping engines:
- Category CPC:
The specific category CPC set for a particular category.
- CPC (Cost Per Click):
There is a floor bid price; the vendors bidding above the floor price are ranked from highest to lowest
in shopping search engines.
- CTR (Click thru rate):
CTR is the number of times a listing has been clicked compared with the number of times a
listing appears in search results.
- Feed Data:
Product details added in a specified format to shopping search engines.
Tip: Complete feed with all data helps boost position.
- Product Pricing:
The price of the product charged from the customer.
Tip: Lower price boosts position.
- Search Relevance:
Shopping search engines matches Title/Description of a product to search query
and displays the results.
- Top BID:
Top spot (highest visibility) goes to the highest bidders. Below these listings
others are minimum category bid.
- User Feedback:
Many shopping search engines allow users to rate and provide feedback for a product.
Tip: Better user rating boosts position.
For any other details on shopping comparison engines, feel free to Contact Us.
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