"Froogle" is a combination of the words "frugal" (thrifty) and
"Google". Froogle was launched in Beta on December 12, 2002. Froogle
is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information
about products for sale online. You can just go to froogle and all the
items available for sale will be listed there. Froogle includes
specific products from a multitude of ecommerce sites on the web. The
search results include a picture of the item for sale, the price of
the item, the store where the item is for sale, the category, and a
brief description from the store's site. Based on the Google
algorithm and database, Froogle enables you to quickly and easily find
specific products for sale all over the web. It also enables you to
search for general search phrases and will return products for sale
that relate to your query. This is where search engine optimization
comes into the picture. Google has introduced an entirely new
motivation for webmasters to optimize their ecommerce sites.
How to index in froogle
The normal process for being listed on Froogle is that you must first
sign up with an account through Google. Then Google requires you to
create a data feed containing your products, saved in a specific
format, and then upload this file to their server. The process can be
quite time-consuming. As an extension of the Google search engine that
millions of people around the globe use daily to research products
before they purchase, listing your product in Froogle is a free way to
extend the reach of your marketing efforts to millions of customers.
The Froogle Engine itself is organized into Categories. There are 14
categories. Shoppers can either drill-down on any of them or search
directly by keyword. Shoppers can also limit your search to a specific
category. Froogle obtains listings for products from vendors and from
scouring the web. When Google runs across a page that appears to sell
something, it feeds the information it collects to Froogle. Vendors
don't pay to have their products included in Froogle's search results.
However, they can purchase sponsored links, which appear along the
right side of Froogle's results pages. When Froogle finds more
than one product from a site, it includes the link "See all results
from vendor." Limiting the number of results from a given site to just
one ensures products from a single vendor won't dominate your search
results and that Froogle provides pages from a variety of sites.
Froogle’s results are compiled by the same software Google use to
compile results for its main index at Google.com, in order of
relevance, and they haven’t used this as an excuse to choke it with
paid advertising either. Just like Google does, Froogle displays
keyword relevant Adwords alongside its product listings. That said
those that rank well on Google for certain terms won’t necessarily see
those results translate well onto rankings in Froogle. As its software
crawls the web, Froogle automatically identifies products for sale and
the picture, price, and category associated with each product. Froogle
may occasionally make incorrect assumptions about content, resulting
in a mismatch between products and images. While we continuously fine
tune this process, the best way to ensure accuracy is to provide us
with a data feed that you know to contain the most up-to-date and
accurate information about your products.
ways you can get included in Froogle:
1. The first, though not the most effective is to let Google or
Froogle crawl your site and pick up the information for itself. This
is likely to result in inaccuracies in your product listing.
2. The second, and more effective way is to submit a data feed
directly to Froogle. Create an Account With Froogle
3. To be eligible to submit a feed, you must sell products via your
website and ship them to the buyer. If you sell services or custom
products that do not have fixed prices, use your website only to
promote an offline business, or are an affiliate marketing site, your
site content may be crawled by and included in Google's web search,
but it will not be included in Froogle. Nor will Froogle accept a data
feed under these conditions.
Inclusion in Froogle is absolutely free. There are absolutely
no hidden charges. It enables users to search over the broadest
possible range of products for sale online.
1 ) Froogle is focused on objectively finding what shoppers are
looking for. We do not accept payment to increase the rankings of
stores within the search results. The ads that appear to the right of
the listing results are clearly labeled as "Sponsored Links."
2 ) We do not sell products. There is no shopping cart or wallet
system to use.