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Ebay Category Taxonomy
The Ebay Category Taxonomy and category list can be found here. The Ebay Category Taxonomy has about a thousand categories. It is recommended to get the category as specific as possible, usually when a leaf node is reached, however specificity...
Ebay Commerce Network Taxonomy
There are around one thousand categories in the Ebay Commerce Network Taxonomy. Categories provide breadcrumbs in order to help describe a product’s classification. Ebay Commerce Network Categories are recommended but not required. For example,...
Nextag Category Taxonomy
Nextag officially went offline on the 28th December 2018 The Nextag Category Taxonomy and category list The category taxonomy contains thousands of different categories. It is highly recommended but not required to use the the Nextag category...
Shopzilla Category Taxonomy
The Shopzilla taxonomy and category list can be found by reaching out to Connexity here. The category taxonomy contains about a thousand different categories. What you'll notice off the bat is that the top-most categories like Babies & Kids...
Google Shopping Purchases on Google Expands from Limited Alpha to Whitelisted Beta!
Google launched Google Shopping "Purchases with Google" in July of 2015, but it was only limited to a few top advertisers, like Ralph Lauren, UGG, and Staples. Google just published some of the key takeaways and metrics from allowing users to...
Google Local Inventory Ads Now Have Store Pickup Link and are Searchable
Google just announced they will be expanding local inventory ads on Google Shopping in two important ways. The first is when someone includes the words "near me", or "close to me", Google will now allow retailers to show a store pickup link that...
Product Feeds
Product feeds are made up of all of the product data attributes on an eCommerce merchant's website, like the product titles, descriptions, images, links, and prices. Product feeds can also have data attributes for child (variant) products like...
Don’t Miss a Sale – Google Shopping Automatic Item Updates
Selling your products through online shopping engines requires coordination. Your website may update right away when a product changes price or goes in or out of stock, but you need to communicate those updates to your online shopping engines...
How to fix: Item Requires a GTIN, resolve by May 16, 2016 Problems in Google Shopping
If you've logged into Google Merchant Center recently, you may have seen warnings about GTINs, specifically with the error "Item Requires a GTIN, resolve by May 16, 2016"Why Are you Seeing This GTIN Error?In short, Google will give you this error...
How to Schedule Shopping Feed Rules
If you've ever found yourself needing to schedule a particular coupon code parameter in a link, or a 20% off sale that starts on particular day of the week at a particular time, Feedonomics now has the ability to schedule transformers! Concrete...