SingleFeed has added support for Pronto! This brings the total number of shopping engines SingleFeed works with to 10. And to think that I almost named the company ninefeeds.com.

With the addition of Pronto, SingleFeed now supports 13 out of the top 15 shopping engines (by traffic as rated by comScore Media Metrix (August 2007). SingleFeed submits feeds to Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Yahoo! Shopping, Mezi Media Sites (Smarter.com), Shoplocal (through Shopping.com), MSN Shopping (through PriceGrabber & Shopping.com), NexTag, AOL Shopping (through PriceGrabber), PriceGrabber, Google Product Search, Pronto, Become, and Best-price.com (through Shopping.com).

Pronto is providing all new merchants with a generous offer: A non-refundable 20% credit to your account (based on all fees accrued during your first full month of activity). So sign up now! Go to:

https://merchant.pronto.com/enrollment/getStarted.do
and enter ’singlefeed07′ as the partner code.

It’s going to take a week to process new feeds to Pronto, so be patient. We want to make sure we do this right to get you the best results possible.

We’re psyched to announce that Google Product Search has selected SingleFeed as a partner in it’s Google Product Search Partner Program. ChannelAdvisor and Channel Intelligence were also selected. As I said in the the press release:

“Being selected as a Google Product Search Partner is an exciting achievement for our company. The SingleFeed team has been hard at work helping merchants submit the best feeds possible to Google Product Search as well as the other leading shopping engines. At SingleFeed, we don’t just want to submit basic Google Product Search feeds, we strive to work with our merchants to optimize their product titles and descriptions as well as other important product attributes. We will continue to work with Google to ensure that we’re not just meeting the expectations of Google Product Search, but constantly testing out new optimization strategies to help all merchants perform better on Product Search.”

First and foremost: Hello! As many of you know, I am the newest member of the SingleFeed team. I’m looking forward to working with all of our clients and helping each and every one of you succeed on the shopping engines! Speaking of succeeding on the shopping engines: enough with the introductions, check out my post on our data feed optimization blog on the topic of promotional messages. Singlefeed is interested in your feedback on how this field performs for you, if it makes a difference, if you’ve never tried it but would like to, and how we can improve our support for it.

SingleFeed struggled with how to support the promotional message field because some engines only accept a predetermined list of values and others accept any custom string of text. To make it easy, we decided to support a set list of the most used values and you can include those in the “promotional message” field of your singlefeed. However, we would like our merchants to be able to take advantage of the engines that support any, custom text. How important is this functionality to you?

We look forward to your feedback. In the meantime, below is the list of values that we currently support in the singlefeed promotional message column… try them out if you aren’t already!

• Authorized Dealer
• 2-3 Day Shipping
• See Site For Better Price
• Price Before Rebate
• Same Day Shipping
• Kit Special
• Store Pickup Available
• Gift with Purchase
• Buy Direct from Mfr
• Extended Warranty
• Earn store loyalty points
• Downloadable Software
• Shipped from Mfr
• Limited Time Offer
• Rebate Available
• 7-14 Day Shipping
• 2-4 Week Shipping
• % Off Special Offer
• Downloadable format
• Price before $25 rebate
• Price before $30 rebate
• Price before $50 rebate
• Price before $100 rebate
• Free Printer Offer
• Free Gift Card
• Product Free With Service Agreement
• Free Shipping
• Free Returns