posted on May 24, 2003 10:06:42 AM new
hi
what's the deal with froogle &google some item's of my store do show at froogle but not all ???? and well for google nothing i got 3000 item's and not one shows i submitted myself as well but still no joy
the store could do more bussiness if i could get it out there..........one more thing are you ever going to do sometime about the homepage we need more control over it (html control). i sell music and i need to have each artist to have it's own link, a home page that then leads to it own list of inventory like a real website would make things run way better, instead of that you have to list of stuff down one side and 6 photos then nothing down the rest of site it needs to fell like are stores ours not yours (advert's everywhere) which at the moment confuse's people
........thanks for your time ..cheers onion27
posted on May 24, 2003 10:41:11 AM new
I, too, have done exhaustive searches on google looking for my items. Occasionally I will find my friend, Greg's, but not mine. I have over 5000 items and cannot find any on Google. I am willing to pay more for real store service here. The only other alternative is to open an online store and I would really prefer to stay here. Help.
We submit a daily feed to Froogle, with updated information. Have you entered any keywords in your Store? If not, you might want to try this, as most search engines are based on keywords.
Also, have you tried contacting Google to ask them why the searches are not successful?
posted on May 24, 2003 11:31:49 AM new
hi yes ive done key words and ive email google never here back from them,i would also like a reply on homepage store questions,thanks
posted on May 24, 2003 11:34:52 AM new
i too am starting to think my own website the only opion, ive done alot of work i don't want to lose but i think it's going to have to be that way........onion27
posted on May 24, 2003 12:23:16 PM new
I have keywords, although I'm not sure the search engines don't seem to get that far into our pages to find them. I continually submit to all the search engines and am listed in all kinds of malls, etc. While I may find a few things on Froogle, not on Google. Google is never going to answer one of our emails, get serious. In your advertising you say that you submit to Google. I say that you can google all you want and not find any, if many, of my 5000 items. As I said before, I am willing to pay more for my store if some improvements could be made in searching, batch editing (with 5000 items I do not want to have to manually change the postage when the next change comes), search engine submission, ability to edit invoices, etc.
We submit a daily feed to Froogle, which is a sub-service of Google. I believe that you need to sign up for the Google Ad-Words service in order to ensure your listings to be displayed in a front-page Google search. For more information on this click here.
We are working on an improved Store format, however, but we believe that our Stores are extremely competitively priced and provide a very rich feature-set for the price. I do not have a timeframe for when improvements to Stores will be made.
posted on May 24, 2003 03:45:20 PM new
THanks Diana, I agree that for the price this is an extremely good deal. Would really like to see the site expand into web hosting more professional online stores. The monthly fee to Google is about 10 to 20X's what I pay you and you get be getting that...
I'm going to try my best to be very positive in this response. (honestly)
Why do you and Vendio treat this subject as if it is a "new question" that has arisen?
There is exhaustive questions, suggestions, solutions and thoughts regarding why we as store owners are not being seen as readily as possible. The Meta Tag thread is one example - Solution? "we have forwarded your suggestions to Product Development for review".
Well, Product Development really needs to look at this situation - it's costing VENDIO money as well. We aren't seen, we can't sell - we can't sell, you (Vendio) has realized lost profits as well.
Seems someone can't see the forest for the trees.
I said I would be positive - I am - you are correct, for the price paid Vendio storefronts are a great value - but then again the free web space people get with MSN or AOL or most other services are a great value too...for the price. My point is I could spend endless hours posting things on my free webspace and attract JUST as many buyers that I'm attracting with my "value-priced" Vendio storefront... which is just a trickle of traffic compared to the potential high traffic we could all realize with just a little WORK on Vendio's end to bring it all in line with an actual on-line store presence.
I'll give it probably 6 months and then BANG I'll build or have someone else build me a MONEY-MAKING website.
That's the positive side of it...Return On Investment... it just ain't clickin' - it's like someone forgot to do something really major in the creation of the storefront interface... uh... like... more space for keyword entry... more space for Title Page Text... FEED 100% of our pages to Froogle - not just the Title and Home page!
This isn't a new problem... this is actually a lifestyle... that could be better.
Best Regards,
Greg
Greg Williams
Retro Bargains
www.retrobargains.com
posted on June 4, 2003 10:49:44 AM new
Greg: If you decide to do another store off site, please keep me posted. Somebody said godaddy was a good host site but I am not sure that our type of store (one needing 5000 "pages" can be accomodated by them. I'd hire you to do my store too! Thanks for the input.
can be accomodated by them. I'd hire you to do my store too! Thanks for the input.