SingleFeed Blog

As Jeremy informed everyone, SingleFeed now supports TheFind. That brings our engine count up to nine. Some of our competitors go for quantity. SingleFeed always goes for quality. That’s been our goal from the start. We could have added fancy charts and detailed analytics from the start, but all those charts/analytics would have told merchants is to remove 80% of their products from the shopping engines. In the same way, we could have added 20 more engines over the last year, but we want to make sure merchants spend their time and effort optimizing feeds where it will have the most impact.

To sign up for TheFind, you have to be a Deluxe subscriber. To add the engine, go to the Engines page, and click on TheFind. Fill out the requested information, click the append per engine tracking code (if you so choose), and click save changes. Within about a week, you’ll see your listings up and running on TheFind.

So why sign up for TheFind?
You should sign up for TheFind because it is a free shopping search engine. There’s no risk to list your products. And if you sell ’soft’ goods, TheFind has done a great job of capturing the eyeballs of the female demographic, so expect some good results for apparel, shoes, handbags, etc.

Doesn’t TheFind crawl sites?
Yes, TheFind crawls sites, but providing TheFind structured data through a data feed will ensure that all your listings go live and that TheFind will have the freshest information possible. For the forseeable future, TheFind will not be crawling every site every day, so if you add new inventory or change prices, TheFind might not pick up on that for a while. However, if you’ve uploaded a new feed to SingleFeed with that information, we can make sure TheFind updates your listings so shoppers have accurate information at their fingertips.

Aren’t my listings already up on TheFind?
Yes, your listings are probably already up on TheFind, but as I just explained, TheFind is probably missing some products and might not have the most up to date data.

So if you’re a Deluxe subscriber, make sure to add TheFind today! And if you’re a Google Base subscriber, maybe it’s time to test out our Deluxe plan!