List in shopping directories, link back??? Advice please ! 1

[JoJoH]

Hi all,

Whenever I want to list my site in any shopping directories, they always required a "link back", some even has to be on the home page!(no way). What do people usually do when they are faced with a "link back" situation to actually link back as promised without driving their visitors away to their "link partner's" site??

Please advice

Thanks in advance!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

Hi JoJoH

IMHO any directory requiring a link back are looking to promote their own ranking more than anything, maybe with the thought of eventually making money out of this ranking from their "partners" or maybe I'm being cynical!.

Something to think about would be providing a data feed to Froogle (The Google shopping channel). It will start to become more important and will be driving qualified traffic.



Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[JoJoH]

Thanks Chris for your reply! Is there any thing in particular that I need to do to provide feed to Froogle?

Please advise

Thanks again!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[JoJoH]

Ah, got it, just read how to do it on Froogle's site, thanks again Chris for the tip, you are definitely an asset to Tek-tips!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

Hi JoJoH

Go to

http://froogle.google.com/froogle/merchants.html

and sign up. It takes about a week to get a reply currently. Then you create a tab delimited file of your products (Ref No, Price, Description, URL etc) I use an ASP script to create one from the clients database (I'm lazy) and then you can upload it whenever you need to and the crawler does the rest.



Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?