If you have an online store with eBay, Yahoo, or osCommerce, why not make sure that Google users can find it, too? Google Base Store Connector is a free download that puts info about your store into our index, so that when people search Google for the products you have to sell, you'll show up in their search results, along with a link directly to your site on eBay , Yahoo, or osCommerce.
You'll never have to manually enter the same items on different websites; we'll automatically format your items for you in the proper Google Base format.
http://base.google.com/base/storeconnector/index.html
The install takes about 1 minute, when it opens, simply enter your chosen language, eBay site (UK, USA etc) & eBay shop URL.
The programme will then connect to your eBay store to extract the data from your listings, before publishing them to Google Base. It will only index BIN or Shop Inventory items, and if you have the same item in two shop listings, only one will be indexed. It also needs to be updated regularly, as listings expire.
Being a numbers geek, I'm going to keep a close eye on my Store Traffic Reports to see where the vistors are coming into my listings from. For the last 3 months, Google (in it's various international forms) has supplied between 7-10% of all traffic into the store. I'll check again in November to see if there has been any noticeable increase in this percentage.
http://base.google.com/base for more information on the system.
To check which of your items are being displayed, and how many page impressions & clicks they've had, use this link - http://www.google.co.uk/base/dashboard?hl=en_GB
To search googlebase for products - http://www.google.co.uk/base/search?a_n ... l=en&gl=uk and then search using filters or keywords. The products are visible within a minute or two of uploading - much quicker than eBay's indexing?!
