SingleFeed Blog

Last week, we began to offer feed support for Nextopia. We ran a webinar and have put together the presentation and some of the top questions in this blog post.

SingleFeed is branching out and now supports several new feed partners, including Nextopia. In this informational webinar you will learn about the features of Nextopia and how SingleFeed can deliver a data feed to power on site search functionality.

- How to setup SingleFeed to work with Nextopia
- Benefits of using a data feed provider to send feeds
- Features of SingleFeed & Nextopia’s technology
- Increase site performance by using an on site search solution

About Nextopia
Nextopia Software provides next generation search, SEO, and site navigation technology to online retailers so they can increase sales through enhanced user experience and shopper satisfaction. More than 1,000 retailing leaders trust Nextopia’s flagship product, eComm|Search. eComm|Search is an intelligent, eCommerce site search solution that enables retailers to leverage customer search and purchase behavior analysis and deploy sophisticated merchandising strategies. With annual pricing starting at $995, Nextopia provides a best in class site search solution for merchants doing over $1M in annual revenue.

How To Activate Nextopia within SingleFeed – http://support.singlefeed.com/entries/233467-nextopia-signup-instructions

You may have noticed in the past few days that there are 4 new data feeds or “engines” which SingleFeed now supports.

SingleFeed has teamed up with a network of trusted site search providers who focus on site search, faceted navigation, and merchandising solutions for online retailers. Merchant’s who use Site Search and Personalization solutions can improve the relevancy of on site search results, satisfy shoppers, and increase sales and conversion rates.

Add faceted navigation and search filters, provide intelligent keyword and synonym search suggestions; all through your SingleFeed! SingleFeed can deliver a feed to any of the partners listed below for an additional $75 per month (introductory offer). We’ve chosen these partners, as they complete an offer that can help a wide range of merchants depending on their budgets and needs.

SearchSpring is an E-Commerce site search and faceted navigation solution which empowers online retailers to unleash findability. Delivering the latest in search and AJAX technology, SearchSpring enables merchants to provide a rich and engaging online shopping experience. SearchSpring puts merchants in the driver’s seat of their site’s search feature by giving them control over every aspect of the software, including the ability to customize the look and feel. Fine grained control over field-level configuration options and the ability to manage synonyms and merchandising settings available inside the newly redesigned SearchSpring Management Console.

With monthly pricing from $99/mo, SearchSpring provides a scalable, affordable site search solution for merchants of all sizes.

Nextopia Software provides next generation search, SEO, and site navigation technology to online retailers so they can increase sales through enhanced user experience and shopper satisfaction. More than 1,000 retailing leaders – including Abt Electronics, Crabtree & Evelyn, Scentiments, Karmaloop and Vintage Tub & Bath – trust Nextopia’s flagship product, eComm|Search. eComm|Search is an intelligent, eCommerce site search solution that enables retailers to leverage customer search and purchase behavior analysis and deploy sophisticated merchandising strategies. Retailers combine eComm|Search with Nextopia’s SEO tools, eComm|TrafficMaker and eComm|SearchCloud, to boost their natural search rankings.

With annual pricing starting at $995, Nextopia provides a best in class site search solution for merchants doing over $1M in annual revenue.

SLI Systems develops learning-based search and navigation technology for publishers, ecommerce and corporate sites that Searches, Learns and Improves the user experience. SLI Systems’ hosted site search and user-generated SEO solutions empower businesses to enhance customer satisfaction and help site visitors find the products and information they seek as quickly and efficiently as possible.

SLI Systems offers site search solutions for serious merchants with over 500 products doing at least $3M in annual revenue.

Certona is the leading personalization and revenue optimization provider for multi-channel retailers. Certona’s vision is to intelligently and automatically optimize and personalize the entire visitor experience for each individual, across all touch points, including their web site experience, email, mobile, in-store, call center and social networks. Certona’s Resonance SaaS platform is trusted by over 225 top retailer sites generating over $20 billion online in 2009 and includes the #1 retailers in Apparel, Specialty, Office Supplies, Luggage, Skincare and multiple other categories.

Certona offers custom personalization solutions for sophisicated merchants doing over $5M in annual revenue.

Any existing customer of SingleFeed can activate these feeds by upgrading their service plan. If you’re a not yet a customer of SingleFeed but would like to know more, please contact us by filling out our Demo request form.

SingleFeed is excited to officially announce the addition of two new shopping engines for our merchants to submit to and the addition of an existing shopping engine to our SingleFeed Starter plan.  Yesterday we activated Amazon Product Ads and Microsoft Live Search Cashback.  Amazon Product Ads will be available to our SingleFeed Gold and Premium clients.  Microsoft Live Search Cashback will be available on all SingleFeed plans.  We also added Sortprice, one of our existing shopping engines, to the SingleFeed Starter plan.

With these additions, our SingleFeed Gold and Premium clients can now submit to 17 of the most popular and profitable shopping engines and our SingleFeed Starter clients can submit to 6 low risk (free, cost-per-sale, or fixed cost) shopping engines as a means to ease in to the comparison shopping arena.

We take the addition of new engines seriously, and don’t activate the engine until we have the proper resources on the shopping engine’s side as well as our own. Maintaining close relationships with our shopping engine partners ensures our merchants have the best possible experience. As always, we’d love to hear from you if you have suggestions for additional shopping engines we should support.

About Amazon Product Ads
Amazon Product Ads is an advertising program that puts your products in front of millions of Amazon.com customers.  Your ads will be displayed in highly targeted placements throughout the Amazon.com site and, when customers are interested in buying your product, they click through to your website and purchase the product directly from you.  Unlike selling your product directly on the Amazon.com website, the Product Ads program utilizes a familiar CPC model, allowing you to advertise on Amazon but still maintain ownership of the checkout process once a potential customer clicks through on your ad.

Click here for more information on Amazon Product Ads.

About Microsoft Live Search Cashback
Live Search cashback is quickly becoming Microsoft’s flagship e-commerce property.  The program rewards consumers with a cash back rebate for purchases and gives advertisers the opportunity to sell on a cost-per-acquisition (CPA) basis.  Live Search cashback allows you to set the percentage of cash back you want to offer (essentially a commission) per category or per product so that you have a guaranteed ROI on every sale.

Click here for more information on Microsoft Live Search cashback.

About Sortprice
Sortprice has been operating for over five years, offering consumers a clean and easy to use interface and merchants great exposure and a unique advertising program.  Sortprice offers both a Basic and Enhanced program for merchants.  It is free to list on the Basic program and a small percentage of your products are selected and displayed in the Sortprice.com search results.  On the Enhanced program, all of your products are listed and you can receive an unlimited number of clicks at a low, flat rate per month.

Click here for more information on Sortprice.

Ryan Douglas

We are very pleased to add TheFind (www.thefind.com) to the list of shopping engines SingleFeed supports.

The shopping comparison engines that you can now find at SingleFeed are:

• Google Base,
• Yahoo! Product Submit (feeds into Yahoo! Shopping),
• Shopzilla,
• Become,
• PriceGrabber,
• Smarter,
• NexTag,
• Shopping.com,
• and TheFind

As opposed to automated XML data feed submission solutions, SingleFeed focuses on data feed optimization, so merchants have the best chance of succeeding on the shopping comparison engines.

We’ll update you later today with more details on TheFind.
Enjoy!

Jeremy Horn