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How to Make Money Online with eBay, Yahoo!, and Google To sign up, visit Froogle and look for the Information for Merchants link at the bottom of the Home page. You have to provide a very simple data-feed file—Froogle only wants a little information. For each product you’ll provide the data in the following table: product_url
The URL of the product’s page
name
The product name
description
The product description
image_url
The URL of the product image
category
A category name
price
The product’s price
This data is transferred to Froogle using an FTP program, a tool frequently used by web designers to transfer files to web sites.
Using Yahoo! Shopping We looked at Yahoo! Shopping in Chapter 21. Yahoo! Merchant Services provides a convenient way to transmit data to Yahoo! Shopping—the directory can pull the information directly out of Merchant Services’ Catalog Manager. If you’re not using Merchant Services, you can still use Yahoo! Shopping, of course, but you’ll have to submit a data-feed file to the system. Yahoo! Shopping is a major system, of course, because Yahoo! itself is the world’s most popular web site. So this directory could, potentially, send a lot of traffic to your site. Yahoo! charges a simple click fee based on the product category; there’s no bidding for position on this directory. Remember, if you use Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, you’ll get a 20% discount on these fees.
Other Shopping Directories to Work With There are a number of other systems you might want to check out: PriceGrabber, http://www.pricegrabber.com/
Shopping.com
Shopzilla, Shopzilla.com
PriceWatch.com
NexTag.com
PriceSCAN.com
PriceSaving.com
You can find many more directories in Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_ Economy/Directories/Companies/) and Google Directory (http://directory.google.com/Top/ Shopping/Directories). There are many other shopping directories. Some may be worth listing in, if they are specialty directories related to your business. However, many are not worth dealing with; they won’t send you much traffic, so you’ll waste a lot of time signing up for all these directories.