Shopping.com recently made a change that will have Rejected all of your products, resulting in your products getting removed from the Live Listings. In addition to making sure you are using the correct version and the correct fields in FeedPerfect (see Shopping.com Feed Spec Changes), you will need to login to your Shopping.com account [...]

Shopping.com has announced new feed specifications that will be enforced on 9/1/11.
Stock Availability will now be a required field. We will make this a required field in Feed Perfect beginning on 8/31/11.
The following fields will be not be supported after 9/1 and will be removed from Feed Perfect:
Subcategory Name, [...]

As you may know Google has changed the requirements to the Google Product Search Feed Specification and Policies. One of these significant changes is the addition of the Google Product Category field. This new attribute contains the category of the product according to Google’s product taxonomy.  Google Product Category will be required for all items [...]

The Google Merchant Center has made some changes yet again. Some of these additions will be required, while others will only help your data’s quality.
You can find their press release about it here: http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/important-changes-to-google-product.html
Summary:
These changes will take place on 9/22/11.

A New Google Product Category – This is a new attribute [...]

I was running into an issue with one of my clients’ entire product lines not displaying on Google’s Product Search.  I am going to take a moment to explain why the items weren’t displaying, and help prevent some headaches if some of your items have recently disappeared too.
The item my client sells are Enesco “Growing [...]

Today I am going to show you how you can incorporate your google analytics account to track your feedperfect data.
1) First log into feedperfect, and click Settings to go to your feed settings page.
2) Click Edit on a feed you wish to see in google analytics.
*Today I am going to edit my Google Product [...]

Google Product search issued a notice yesterday to let merchants know that they will be extending their new requirement to include all tax and shipping information until September 1st. They have also stated that they are permitting merchants to use accurate “estimates” for tax and shipping information.
This is the first time Google has indicated [...]

May 3rd marked the start of when Google was to begin requiring all merchants (outside of the apparel category) to begin submitting Universal Product Identifiers. However, recently Google recently released a second statement saying that even though they have started to require the Universal Product Identifiers, they are not going to fully enforce it [...]

This is just one last reminder that on May 3rd Google is going to be requiring 2 out of 3 things.  You will need to send your product’s Brand information, and either the UPC (12 digit barcode numbers) or MPN (manufacturer’s part number).  The only two exceptions for this rule are for items that fall [...]

As a comparison shopping engine account manager here at Solid Cactus, I use feedperfect daily.  I would like to post regularly with industry updates, as well as take an opportunity to give you tips and tricks that I have found to work well with Feedperfect.
This first post will be to show you how to create [...]